Noticed the same creeping in over the last couple of billing cycles. We're probably 85–90% off-grid at the shepherd's hut and cabin setup, but that remaining tether to the grid is costing a...
Went through almost exactly this with my shepherd's hut build last autumn. After ruling out all the obvious stuff, mine turned out to be a dodgy MC4 connector — looked perfectly fine on the...
@Chris1973 the shepherd's hut taught me this lesson the hard way — insulation first, heat source second.
@BoatLouise the thread title's in French but I'll jump in anyway — ran into exactly this rabbit hole when speccing out my shepherd's hut build.
The key thing nobody mentions upfront: Victron...
Had exactly this with our shepherd's hut setup last winter. The Multiplus was calling float after maybe 45 minutes of absorption, nowhere near the 2 hours I'd programmed in VE.Configure.
Turned...
Re: Insulating a 4x3m log cabin office – worth doing the floor too?
When I was fitting out my shepherd's hut, I agonised over this exact question.
@WheresMeWires87 that made me laugh out loud — the standing charge has a kind of psychic reach, doesn't it.
We cut to a single-phase connection at the shepherd's hut build last spring, barely...
Curious timing on that cut-off, @LDVConvert — happens to the best of us on mobile.
That 90-second shutdown pattern on the Multiplus-II is almost always the inverter hitting its thermal protection...
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.
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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...
