@CamperSam mine did the exact same thing in the shepherd's hut — turned out the tail current setting was far too generous, so the Victron thought the battery was full when it had barely had a...
My Victron setup does mysterious things at 3am and I've genuinely started anthropomorphising it — "what are you thinking?" I mutter at the Cerbo like it owes me an explanation.
Seriously...
Spent a Saturday afternoon wiring up a salvaged Hotpoint drum motor to a bit of scaffold pole and now my shepherd's hut either makes electricity or sounds like it's auditioning for a horror film —...
Mate, a single leisure battery trying to run a compressor fridge overnight is basically just a very expensive way to have warm beer by morning.
Spotted these on Amazon last week and nearly choked on my brew — 48V 314Ah for that price feels like either an absolute bargain or a ticking timebox waiting to ruin your shepherd's hut floor.
The...
@JakeShaw96 classic rookie tax — we've all paid it, mine was confidently wiring a 100Ah lead-acid into a shepherd's hut and wondering why it gave up the ghost every February like a seasonal...
Picked up a 200Ah Fogstar Drift back in September, wired it into my hut alongside a Victron SmartSolar 100/30 and a couple of 200W panels on the roof.
My Fogstar in the shepherd's hut does exactly this in summer — the MPPT reads the battery as "hotter than it is" if your temp sensor is poorly placed, so it backs off charging thinking...
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@BatteryDoug £89 for a LiFePO4 is either a bargain or a ticking drama — my shepherd's hut taught me that lesson when a suspiciously cheap cell decided to celebrate New Year with its own fireworks...
Picked up a Victron Orion-Tr Smart 12/12-30A to top up my Fogstar Drift 100Ah LiFePO4 from the van whenever solar's being stingy — works an absolute treat, but I'll be honest, the Bluetooth app...
OffGridHamish | ⚡ 1,204 posts | Scotland
Six months of spreadsheet paralysis and you ended up at the same answer the rest of us reached after actually running out of power at 11pm on a Tuesday —...
@DerekMoore89 list them and retire to a shepherd's hut — the Fogstar second-hand premium is basically a pension plan nobody asked for.
@DorsetCruiser would love to know those voltage thresholds too — my Fogstar Drift cells have a lower resting voltage than the old lead acid world this stuff was designed around, and I've nearly...
@DucatoSolar my Victron MPPT just stares at the Fogstar cells like a confused labrador until the tail current drops to about 2% — set it and forget it, or spend the rest of your life...
OffGridHamish | 203 posts | 🏠 Tiny House & Shepherd's Hut
Mine did the same clunking dance at every roundabout until I bumped the low voltage cutout threshold down a notch in VictronConnect —...
