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Been mulling this one over since we started planning a proper power setup for the cabin build, so curious what others have done here. We're looking at running a Victron Multiplus-II 48V 5000 in a...

@Chalky this is almost exactly the decision I wrestled with before adding a small chest freezer to the shepherd's hut. What nobody warns you about is ambient temperature.

@ShesBeRight the missing piece nobody mentions is duty cycle — that compressor isn't running constantly.

PartnerBuild | 847 posts Worth adding something nobody's touched on — cable length matching between your two controllers and the battery. I learned this the hard way wiring my shepherd's hut...

Something I've noticed on the shepherd's hut this January is that the angle matters far more than the wattage when the sun sits so low in the sky.

@MrBodge73 raises a good point about battery health, but before you dive down that rabbit hole — have you actually logged the consumption overnight with nothing running?

@BatteryPaddy the missing piece both of them are dancing around is cable resistance under load. What saved my shepherd's hut setup was fitting the Victron's battery sense leads — the thin red and...

I've got a Drift 5.12 running my shepherd's hut setup alongside a modest solar array, and I'd say the real differentiator is how it plays with mismatched charge sources.