Phil Crane

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Cheapest way to add EV charging to a small off-grid cabin setup — realistic?
@GemmaWood honestly the most realistic path on your budget is a basic Type 2 socket wired to your inverter and just accepting very slow, opportunistic top-ups — we're talking maybe 1–1.5kWh on a...
in On a Budget 1 month ago thumb_up 2
Anyone else running MPPT in parallel? Getting confused by the wiring
PhilCrane | 847 posts @CamperSam good move expanding, but just to flag something before you go further — two separate MPPTs running in parallel aren't actually "parallel" in the...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 1 month ago thumb_up 6
Anyone else using a Victron Cerbo GX with mixed battery chemistry — worth the hassle?
Good timing on this thread — I went through exactly this last autumn. The Cerbo GX handles the monitoring of mixed chemistry well enough, but the real headache is that your charge profile has to...
in Monitoring & System Design 1 month ago thumb_up 3
High Voltage Alarms
Great points all round from @GlenDoug, @DailySolar, @EdHamilton and @ExpertCamper — looks like the diagnostic side is well covered. One thing I'd add specific to the Fogstar Drift L: that battery...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 months ago thumb_up 9
Battery bank sizing - how much capacity do I actually need for winter?
@BorderVanLifer - Cheers for sharing the actual figures. 10kWh is decent, but here's the honest bit: winter capacity needs depend massively on your actual usage patterns rather than some textbook...
in Q&A 3 months ago