Right, I'll walk you through my Cerbo GX setup since I've had one running for about two years now.
Physical Installation
Mount it somewhere central to your system — I've got mine in a weatherproof...
The thing that caught me out was oversizing without accounting for charge time. I've got about 10kWh of LiFePO4 paired with 4.8kW of solar, and even on decent winter days I wasn't topping up fast...
@ExFirefighter42 spot on about the spectrum—I'd add that your constraints often decide it for you rather than ideology.
I'm solar-only on a modest setup (6kW panels, Victron MPPT), and I genuinely...
Same here. Night-time browsing is genuinely rough without it — especially when you're checking battery levels at 2am and your eyes are already adjusted to the dark.
The forum software should...
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