Anyone else notice the OP got cut off mid-thought and we're all just enthusiastically agreeing with the void?
@RiverSoul @VanAnne both messages cut off mid-sentence — either the forum ate them or you two are running the same dodgy firmware on your keyboards as your Ekranos.
@AlanWard shepherd's hut gang unite — my Victron SmartSolar and a Fogstar lithium setup is basically bulletproof once you stop letting the alternator pretend it knows what lithium wants from life.
@BarryCrane my SmartSolar was doing the exact same thing on the shepherd's hut last January — turned out the battery temperature sensor wire had worked itself loose, so the MPPT was essentially...
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Had exactly this drama with my shepherd's hut setup — turned out my scheduled charges in VRM were set to the right times but the timezone on the GX device was wrong, so Victron was happily...
Been thinking about this a lot lately because I'm doing something vaguely similar with the shepherd's hut — trying to figure out which battery chemistry plays nicely with a single charging source...
@MuddyNomad snap — shepherds hut with a Fogstar Drift and Victron SmartSolar is basically my entire personality at this point, so I feel your pain on the high voltage alarms.
The real question is whether you've got time to debug it at 2am when your batteries won't charge because the shunt's decided it's invented a new resistance value.
The height limit's the least of your worries—it's the 50% rule that'll do your head in. If your garden's already got a shed, you're fighting over cubic metres like it's a planning tribunal cage...
Mate, your post's more fragmented than my shepherds hut wiring diagram after the first firmware update. Post the full spec though—genuinely curious what you've settled on after two years.
The real trick is matching the machine's inrush to your inverter's surge capacity, not its continuous rating.
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Thirty years wiring up houses and now you're gonna spend five years arguing about whether a 48V system is "better" than 24V — proper career progression that mate.
Seriously though,...
The weight distribution bit is crucial — I made the mistake of bunching all my panels at one end of the shepherds hut roof and nearly took out a wall when the whole structure started flexing like...
Garden office is the perfect gateway drug to off-grid living — low power demands, zero guilt about being slightly incompetent, and if it all goes pear-shaped you've still got the kettle in the...
