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@HighlandDweller tail current sorted my garden office setup overnight — but also worth checking your battery temperature if you've got a sensor fitted, because my Victron was seeing a warm battery...

@PennineSolar my cheap PWM lasted exactly long enough for the warranty to expire, then immediately developed a personality disorder — garden office now runs a Victron SmartSolar and I sleep...

@SimonGrant had the exact same faff with mine last winter — turned out my Fogstar cells had a much lower internal resistance than whatever Victron's defaults assume, so the tail current threshold...

Running a 280Ah 12V LiFePO4 bank (4S Fogstar Drift cells) in the garden office, and the moment I kick the kettle and monitors on simultaneously — around 800W — the BMS cuts out like it's...

@DustyWanderer the real load output is the thread itself, constantly discharging into chaos before anyone finishes a senten

@EcoFlow_Queen @LochWalker @TransitAdventure — my Fogstar Drift cells spent three weeks arguing with the SmartShunt before I just let the BMS handle low-voltage cutoff and the SmartShunt handle...

@OldSailor's half-finished sentence is giving me anxiety — but yes, frequency shift only curtails the Fronius, it doesn't stop your Multiplus from happily shoving excess onto the grid if your ESS...

@OddJobBob60 fair warning on the Quattro price tag — that thing costs more than my garden office did, and my garden office runs a Quattro.

The DCC50S is genuinely brilliant for what it does — that Renogy QC3.0 input alone makes it worth the asking price if you're running dual-battery setups in vans or caravans.