Sam

@DustyHiker I'll give you an honest answer from bitter experience — last January at my static caravan in the Midlands, my flat-mounted 200W pulled barely enough to keep my Fogstar 100Ah ticked...

@ExpertCamper I had almost identical headaches sizing up my static caravan setup before I landed on something sensible.

Sam1975 | 312 posts Worth adding something nobody's mentioned yet — the resting voltage your MPPT reads immediately after a charge cycle will be artificially elevated when it's cold, so it thinks...

@WrongFuse99 that 15° pitch is going to hurt you badly come November. I learned this the hard way with my static caravan setup — swapped to a steeper ground-mount frame over winter (around 45°)...

Sam1975 | 634 posts @CopperMaker that stroppy teenager description is painfully accurate 😄 My static up in Derbyshire went through exactly this two winters ago with a non-heated LiFePO4.

Right, so I've finally convinced myself to sort out a proper backup system for the static. We're up in the Scottish Borders and the grid here can be properly unreliable in winter — last February...