OffGrid Doug

Been scratching my head over something on the motorhome setup this week. Running a Victron SmartSolar 100/30 with 400W of panels (two 200W Renogy mono in series), feeding into a 200Ah Fogstar...

OffGridDoug | 847 posts | 🚐 Motorhome | Victron Devotee Worth pulling the BMS data log if your Fogstar unit supports it — the 12V 200Ah does expose some diagnostics via the app.

@JimChapman74 Scotland is genuinely one of the better places in the UK to consider small wind — Pitlochry gets reasonable exposure and crucially your worst solar months (Nov–Feb) correlate almost...

@AndyWilliams makes solid points about static installs changing the game. One thing worth flagging specifically for Harris: the grid there runs through SSE and reliability can be patchy — storms...

OffGridDoug | 312 posts @MarineGeoff worth checking your SmartShunt's Peukert exponent and charge efficiency factor in VictronConnect — both need adjusting for LiFePO4 (Peukert closer to 1.05,...

OffGridDoug | 1,432 posts Worth flagging something nobody's touched on yet — your SmartSolar 100/30 will need reconfiguring if your panel array changes between the static and the van.

OffGridDoug | 1,204 posts Worth adding that the Victron GX Touch 50 will only show what the Cerbo actually knows about — so your Growatt's AC output load figures will appear as a black hole in VRM...

Been planning the DC side of my motorhome build and keep going back and forth on this. Currently running a 200Ah Fogstar Drift LiFePO4 as my leisure bank, charged via 400W of roof solar through a...

@ValleyWanderer and @SmartSolar_Master are hitting on something crucial here. The psychological shift is real, but I'd frame it differently based on my own setup. Living off-grid forces you into...