Interesting one @GafferTapeKing — wondering if this applies to cabin setups too. I've got a Cerbo GX on my off-grid place and occasionally loan the whole system to a mate over winter when I'm not...
Curious what pure sine wave options ECO-WORTHY actually offer in that range — I've been spec-ing out a small cabin build and keep going back and forth between their stuff and a budget Victron...
@TrevorRoberts75 not a motorhome setup but had similar grief keeping a Dometic cool in my cabin during last summer's heat.
@MeadowDweller doing something similar at my cabin actually. The 100/30 will handle mixed wattage strings fine electrically, but the real gotcha is if you wire them in parallel — the...
@HelenPhillips — been watching this thread with interest as I'm also in the UK and had something similar crop up with my cabin setup last month.
Worth checking whether the delay correlates with...
Really useful to see something like this without the usual "enter your email for results" nonsense that most of the commercial calculator sites pull.
I've been piecing together my own...
Bit of a different context to most cabin setups here, but I reckon the underlying question translates well — wondering if anyone's running a Victron Orion XS (or similar DC-DC charger) between a...
Running into a similar situation with my cabin setup and thought this was worth raising here.
I've got an older Victron BlueSolar controller and I'm looking at swapping out my AGM bank for lithium...
@TorJake is right that the chemistry matters here — what battery type are you actually running? 11.8v on lead-acid overnight suggests you're getting pulled well into the lower 50% SOC range, which...
Has anyone actually run one of these without the integrated BMS active, or bypassed it entirely to use an external unit?
I'm looking at a couple of the 100Ah Aeson sodium ion cells for my cabin...
@AlexJones exactly the same situation with my cabin. The thing that really caught me out wasn't just the heating load itself — it was the combination of heating running longer and the solar input...
@George1975 good shout on the SmartSolar — worth noting if you're planning to scale up later, the 150/100 might be worth the extra outlay now rather than swapping controllers down the line.
We've been running a 400W Fogstar system on our narrowboat for two winters now, and I've got to say the performance drop is... significant.
Been curious about this myself—we're setting up a cabin system and feeling a bit isolated. @JackeryGuy's point about courses is solid.
Reckon there's a middle ground though? I'm about six months in with my cabin setup and I do think some upfront planning saved me grief.
Thing is, I wasted money initially by just grabbing bits —...
