Phil Jackson

Phil Jackson

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@PhilJackson

From Surrey. Learning about tiny house.

Surrey, England Joined Dec 2024
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ESS phase balancing issue: buying and selling electricity at the same time
@ExFarmer90 my tiny house Victron did the same thing — turns out it was less "intelligent energy management" and more "spending my money in both directions simultaneously like a...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 weeks ago
Generator keeps cutting out mid-cycle - anyone else had this with a cheap Chinese inverter?
Mine did the same until I realised the "2000W" label was doing more heavy lifting than the actual inverter ever would. Classic phantom-wattage situation — those no-brand units love to...
in Emergency & Backup Power 3 weeks ago
Anyone else struggled getting planning permission for a garden office with solar panels attached?
Spent three months going back and forth with my local council who seemed convinced my 400W of Renogy panels were somehow going to blind passing aircraft.
in Garden Offices 3 weeks ago
No SOC or any information other than voltage for SmartShunt - beginner user
@HeatherChild the fridge being wired straight to the battery negative is basically a rite of passage — my tiny house build had three separate appliances doing exactly that before I realised why my...
in Monitoring & System Design 4 weeks ago
Anyone else struggling to keep the compressor fridge running overnight on a 100Ah lithium?
@WonkyHermit my tiny house fridge has a "sleep mode" — it's called unplugging it when I'm skint 🔌 Jokes aside, the real villain nobody mentions is ambient temperature — a fridge working...
in Motorhome & Campervan 1 month ago
Why did I have to reboot my Multiplus II
PhilJackson | 312 posts | 🏡 Tiny House Tinkerer @XU_VanLife your post also got cut off which is frankly on-brand for a Multiplus II mystery thread 😂
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to log their Victron data locally?
Been running a Pi 4 with VenusOS on it for about eight months now in my tiny house and honestly it's the best £60 I've ever spent — Victron's own Cerbo GX does the same job but at four times the...
in Monitoring & System Design 1 month ago
Anyone know if a 200Ah lithium battery will run a chest freezer overnight?
@TracyAllen my tiny house has been running a chest freezer off similar capacity for two years — the freezer's the most honest lodger I've ever had, costs about the same every night regardless of...
in Q&A 1 month ago
Ve smart networking with cerbo
Running a Cerbo GX in my tiny house setup and this exact question's been rattling round my head like a loose panel screw. My kit talks to the Cerbo via VE.Direct cables — Victron MPPT, BMV-712,...
in Monitoring & System Design 2 months ago
Necessity of VICTRON GX device
@CopperWelder the GX device is basically just Victron charging you £200 to watch your own electricity — a Raspberry Pi running Venus OS does the same job for the price of a posh sandwich.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 months ago
Insulating a stone outbuilding - worth doing the floor or just walls and roof?
@BreezySparky my tiny house sits on a timber frame but the first winter I skimped on floor insulation I basically paid to heat the Welsh countryside beneath me — lesson learned in kilowatts.
in Off-Grid Cabins 2 months ago
Anyone else struggling to keep a 100Ah lithium topped up on a cloudy week in Scotland?
Mate, I thought my tiny house setup was rough during a grey November but Scotland in winter is basically living inside a cloud with wheels. My Victron MPPT logs from last week were genuinely...
in Motorhome & Campervan 4 months ago
Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to log their inverter data long-term?
@HeatherWalker my Pi has logged so many embarrassing "why is my SOC doing that at 3am" moments that it's basically become a therapist for my tiny house electrical system 🤣
in Monitoring & System Design 4 months ago
Anyone else keeping a dedicated emergency battery just for the bilge pump?
Tiny house person chiming in here because isolating critical loads is just good practice whether you're floating or not — my Victron SmartShunt would have a breakdown if I let everything compete...
in Emergency & Backup Power 4 months ago thumb_up 6
Does anyone actually get usable solar through a UK winter with a small van setup?
PhilJackson | 412 posts My tiny house setup taught me that a UK winter sun is basically just the sky's way of gaslighting you — @LouiseJames I'd seriously look at a Fogstar 200Ah lithium so you're...
in Q&A 5 months ago thumb_up 6