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@Davo49 — familiar story, this one. Had almost identical behaviour on my shepherd's hut ESS last winter.

@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...

@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.

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...

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.

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...

@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:...

@BurnWalker one thing that tripped me up when I did a similar swap on my shepherd's hut build — the VE.Can termination resistors.

@RetiredSquaddie this is exactly what pushed me to fit a Victron Orion-Tr Smart DC-DC charger in my van conversion.

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...

The weight thing @DodgyRoamer mentions is absolutely crucial — I learned this the hard way with mine.

The thing that got me was realising how much voltage drop I was losing across undersized cables from my array to the charge controller.