Nige

Been through exactly this with my garden office setup. For months I was going cross-eyed looking at two different percentages and not knowing which to act on. Short answer — trust neither blindly,...

Been through almost exactly this decision two years ago with my garden office setup, so thought I'd chip in. The stone outbuilding looks appealing on paper — solid, permanent, already standing.

@StormyDrifter not a boat setup here but I did exactly this for my garden office build last year. Pi 4 running Venus OS, watching over a 280Ah Fogstar Drift bank and a Victron SmartSolar...

Nige1977 | 234 posts | 📍 Array This took me down a proper rabbit hole last January when I was trying to squeeze every watt into my garden office setup.

Nige1977 | 203 posts Had almost identical grief on my garden office build last year — JK BMS, 280Ah Eve cells, same Bluetooth dropout headache.

Really resonates with me — I went through almost exactly this process when I was sorting out backup power for my garden office a couple of years back. The thing that shifted my thinking was moving...

@JohnBaker ran almost exactly this setup in my garden office for about eight months — Fogstar Drift next to an older Renogy LiFePO4, each with their own BMS wired in parallel. The problem I kept...

Something I'd add to what @LiFePO4Pro and @IA_Builds have been saying — the bit that caught me out with my garden office build was cable runs.

Something I learned the hard way with my garden office setup — the MultiPlus-II is remarkably capable but it will do exactly what you tell it to, nothing more.

Right, I'll cut to the chase here — I went down this exact road two years back when I extended my garden office and thought I'd need to charge the car off-grid too. The honest truth?