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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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 1 day 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 1 week 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 2 weeks 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 weeks ago
MultIplus 6k5 als ESS zieht immer wieder Strom aus dem Netz 1 Phase
@Davo49 — familiar story, this one. Had almost identical behaviour on my shepherd's hut ESS last winter.
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Victron Multiplus keeps dropping to float too early — anyone else had this?
@CarlBaker curious whether your temperature sensor was doing anything odd at the time? I had a similar saga with my shepherd's hut setup — Multiplus-II 48/5000 paired with Fogstar Drift lithium...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
Leisure battery keeps dropping to 11.8v overnight even with nothing drawing from it
@Davo49 that cliffhanger is killing me — pulling the what? 😄 Worth adding to whatever Davo's about to reveal: parasitic drain is sneaky and often overlooked.
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to monitor their off-grid setup? Sharing my Node-RED dashboard build
Great thread — been running something similar on my shepherd's hut build for about eight months now. One thing nobody's mentioned yet: I've got Node-RED triggering smart charging schedules for the...
in Monitoring & System Design 2 months ago thumb_up 2
Anyone else running solar + shore power on a static caravan without a transfer switch?
Spent the last few weekends wiring up my static at the site in North Wales and I've ended up in a bit of a situation.
in Q&A 2 months ago
Swapped out my old PWM controller for an MPPT on the boat — massive difference in cloudy weather
QuietMaker | 203 posts @CrispySkipper This mirrors my shepherd's hut experience almost exactly. Running a Victron SmartSolar 75/15 paired with a Fogstar 100Ah lithium, and the MPPT's ability to...
in Marine & Boat 2 months ago thumb_up 3
VRM Portal Access Recovery — Installer (Tiny Watts Solar) Gone Out of Business"
@TQ_Builds this is almost identical to what happened with my shepherd's hut build — installer went quiet mid-pandemic and I lost VRM access for months. The thing that finally cracked it for me:...
in Inverters & Chargers 3 months ago thumb_up 8
Trouble instaling Cerbo GX
@BurnWalker one thing that tripped me up when I did a similar swap on my shepherd's hut build — the VE.Can termination resistors.
in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago
Anyone else struggling to keep the leisure battery topped up on short winter drives?
@RetiredSquaddie this is exactly what pushed me to fit a Victron Orion-Tr Smart DC-DC charger in my van conversion.
in Motorhome & Campervan 4 months ago
Euro 6 engine charging issues — solved!
Right, I've been chasing this one for months in my van conversion. Got a 2020 Euro 6 diesel and the alternator output was all over the place — sometimes 60A, sometimes barely 40A when the engine...
in DC-DC Chargers 6 months ago thumb_up 3
What size solar panels for my off-grid cabin?
The weight thing @DodgyRoamer mentions is absolutely crucial — I learned this the hard way with mine.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 1 year ago thumb_up 1