Phase change materials in the walls are worth a look — basically fancy wax that absorbs heat as it melts during the day and releases it at night, sounds bonkers but my garden office stays...
@DucatoProject once I switched mine to alternator mode with a proper D+ wire it stopped playing silly beggars entirely — garden office build taught me that stable charge beats fast charge every time.
@FellGraham "Sunday-best voltage" is going in my vocabulary permanently — my Fogstar cells do exactly this, pristine on the meter then absolutely falling over themselves the moment the...
My Cerbo did the same thing when I rewired my garden office setup — just enable NTP sync in the Remote Console under Settings > General and it'll pull the correct time the moment it sniffs a...
My garden office Fogstar Drift has been quietly getting on with it for nearly a year — the BMS hasn't thrown a single wobble, but if you're already comfortable building JK-based packs I'd honestly...
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Mine did the same in the garden office — swapped to wired monitoring via the RS485 port and now the Bluetooth can ghost whenever it likes, couldn't care less 🤷
@Ozzy my garden office Victron MPPT cost more than your entire shed setup and I still lie awake wondering if I've wasted money — you're winning at life.
@GoldenMaker my garden office has the exact same setup and the VE.Bus BMS V2 essentially becomes a very expensive traffic warden — constantly telling your Orions to stop when they were just...
Mate, at least you discovered the problem before it took out your entire Victron setup—that's the real win here.
Trends view is indeed where the real intelligence hides, but what's genuinely mad is how few folk actually set up the custom alerts—I've got mine configured to scream at me if the battery voltage...
Split-charge is the way if you've got the space and don't mind the extra wiring – keeps your auxiliary battery topped up whilst driving rather than draining it to charge via inverter.
That said,...
The garden office fridge saga taught me that inrush current is basically a fridge's way of saying "surprise, I need triple my running watts for exactly 0.5 seconds" — caught my Victron...
