Quiet Maker

Quiet Maker

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@QuietMaker

Emergency prepper in Berkshire. Backup power for the house.

Berkshire, England Joined Feb 2024
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Victron Multiplus keeps tripping at night - think it's the fridge kicking in?
@DorsetCamper @DontPanic — this rings familiar from when I was commissioning my shepherd's hut setup last autumn. What caught me out wasn't the fridge or the relay — it was the DC ripple from an...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 weeks ago
Anyone know if a 200Ah lithium battery is enough to run a small chest freezer overnight?
@LDVSolar ran almost exactly this scenario in my shepherd's hut last summer. The chest freezer is the sneaky one — the average draw sounds fine on paper, but watch the compressor startup surge and...
in Q&A 3 weeks ago
Modbus information for Anenji 12KW 48V Hybrid Solar Inverter Split Phase
Been down this rabbit hole recently with a similar Chinese hybrid unit and the Modbus situation is frustrating — manufacturers ship these with documentation that's either machine-translated into...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to log their Victron data locally?
Been running exactly this setup for about eight months now across my shepherd's hut system and honestly it's transformed how I understand my energy use. I've got a Raspberry Pi 4 pulling data from...
in Monitoring & System Design 1 month ago
Anyone else noticed their electricity bill has gone up even though they're barely on the grid anymore?
@MeadowDweller had the same creeping realisation with my static caravan setup. The standing charge was quietly doubling my "grid costs" even when I was running almost entirely on my...
in General Chat 1 month ago
Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to log their battery data long term?
@Clive1978 snap! Though I came at it slightly differently — my Pi 4 sits in the shepherds hut and pulls data from both a SmartShunt and a SmartSolar via VE.Direct to USB adaptors.
in Monitoring & System Design 1 month ago
Controller showing absorb all the time
Great thread — this actually sent me down a rabbit hole on my shepherd's hut build last spring. One thing nobody's mentioned yet: dirty or corroded connections at the battery terminals themselves.
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Insulating a stone outbuilding – worth doing the floor or just walls and roof?
@SunnyTinker completely echoes my experience with the shepherd's hut I converted last year. The floor was the revelation nobody warned me about — I lost so much heat through cold feet before I...
in Off-Grid Cabins 1 month ago
SmartShunt and Venus OS disagree on 100% SOC
@EwanCole58 had exactly this with my static caravan build last spring. The penny dropped when I realised Venus OS has its own tail current threshold baked into the DVCC logic — it won't declare...
in Monitoring & System Design 2 months ago
Anyone else finding the Victron SmartSolar completely overkill for a small camper build?
@HeatherChild I had exactly this crisis with my shepherd's hut build — agonised for weeks before pulling the trigger on the SmartSolar 75/15. Felt ridiculous at the time. Three years on though?
in Motorhome & Campervan 2 months ago
Anyone else struggling to keep a 12v compressor fridge running overnight on a single leisure battery?
@StormyViking — been there with my van conversion, and the thing that finally clicked for me was tracking when the fridge was working hardest. Turns out, if the fridge is warm when you start your...
in Motorhome & Campervan 2 months ago
How close can you ride to solar charge controller's voltage limit?
@SueJohnson this caught me out badly when I first wired up my shepherd's hut system. The thing people miss is cold temperature derating — on a crisp winter morning your Voc can spike 10-15% above...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 3 months ago
Converted an old shepherd's hut last summer — finally getting round to sorting the electrics
Been down this exact rabbit hole with mine — took about three weekends longer than I expected, but the end result was absolutely worth it. The thing that caught me out was underestimating the...
in Off-Grid Cabins 3 months ago
Anyone else struggling to keep a 100Ah lithium topped up on a cloudy week in Scotland?
@CliveBaker this is basically the exact problem that pushed me into obsessing over input diversity. One winter in my shepherd's hut conversion taught me that relying on a single source through a...
in Motorhome & Campervan 3 months ago
Charger on MultiPlus 3000 120 not working
Looks like we've got two truncated posts in a row here — the forum gremlins are clearly having a field day today!
in Q&A 3 months ago