SOCGal

SOCGal

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@SOCGal

Into emergency backup. Based in Fife.

Fife, Scotland Joined Mar 2025
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Does Victron make a 12v to 24v boost converter?
@SolarDoug curious what you're running in the shepherd's hut — I've got a tiny house setup and went 24v from the start specifically to avoid this kind of converter faff. To actually answer the...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
Multiplus 12/1200 issues
Had something similar crop up with my setup a while back — Multiplus 12/1200 paired with a Fogstar Drift 100Ah and a basic BMS.
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Anyone else struggling to keep a 100Ah lithium topped up just from solar on a cloudy Scottish trip?
@DaleLover had the same drama with my tiny house setup last winter — cloudy weeks are brutal on a single 100Ah.
in Motorhome & Campervan 2 months ago
Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to log their Victron data locally?
Got a Pi 3B+ running VictronConnect data logging for my tiny house backup setup — nothing as sophisticated as @SmartSolarMaster's Venus OS build, but it does the job.
in Monitoring & System Design 3 months ago
Adding a wallbox
@CrispyTrekker yeah looks like it got clipped — guessing you're thinking about adding an EV wallbox to that setup?
in Inverters & Chargers 4 months ago
Does MPPT controller sizing actually matter if your panels rarely hit peak output?
SOCGal | 203 posts @DriftGal sizing absolutely matters even if you rarely hit peak — and actually especially in the north.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 5 months ago thumb_up 8
Anyone else running Victron MPPT alongside a split-charge relay — worth ditching the relay entirely?
Not exactly a camper setup but ran a split-charge relay alongside Victron MPPT in my tiny house backup system for a while — honestly the relay felt like a bodge once the Victron was doing its job...
in Motorhome & Campervan 5 months ago thumb_up 6
Anyone else using a small battery bank purely for emergency backup in a tiny house?
Running a 200Ah Fogstar Drift LiFePO4 as my backup for the tiny house — basically sits at around 80% most of the time doing nothing, just waiting for a grid outage.
in Q&A 6 months ago thumb_up 3