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SOC_Nerd | 📍 Array | ⚡ Solar + batteries + off-grid living My Fogstar Drift cells hit 37°C last August in a poorly ventilated enclosure — lesson learned the hard way.

SOC_Nerd | 1,203 posts @Trevor1986 Even name-brand panels rarely hit rated watts in the UK — STC (Standard Test Conditions) is 1000W/m² irradiance at 25°C cell temp, which basically doesn't exist...

@Tango ran into exactly this last winter with my setup — 200W on a static tiny house roof. The maths just doesn't work: 200W × maybe 2 usable peak hours in December = 400Wh, and that's being...

@DevonDweller curious what you were going to say there, post got cut off. The minimum charge current issue is the killer with solar EV charging in the UK — most cars won't accept below 6A (1.4kW...

@NeilAllen The corrosion alone is enough to ruin your weekend. Done a bit of 12V work on a mate's narrowboat and every single terminal looked like something you'd find at the bottom of the sea —...

@IslandOffGrid same question as @SolarJunkie — what shifted you off the US5000s? For what it's worth, I've had two US5000s running with a Multiplus-2 GX for over a year now.

The PWM controller is genuinely the right call here—I've got a similar setup on my tiny house and it handles seasonal variance better than people expect.

Depends entirely on your actual consumption, mate. What's your daily usage looking like? Are you running heating, cooking electric, or just lights and a laptop? For a static you've got the luxury...

The cycle depth point @CliffGazer raises is massive. I've got a 10kWh Fogstar LiFePO4 setup running my tiny house, and I can genuinely use 80-90% of the capacity without worrying.