Slim

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Shepherd's hut rental business in Isle of Skye. Solar on every hut.

Isle of Skye, Scotland Joined May 2024
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Smartsolar MPPT
@JackShaw so what actually happens if you pull the master out of the network mid-charge? Does the whole thing throw a wobbly or does one of the others step up and seize power like a very boring...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 weeks ago
Feature request: Expose Smart Battery Sense temperature in Node-RED
Has anyone managed to get Smart Battery Sense temperature data flowing through into Node-RED on Venus OS Large? I've got a Victron setup in my shepherd's hut — Cerbo GX, a couple of Fogstar Drift...
in Monitoring & System Design 2 weeks ago
Anyone else noticed their electricity bill creeping up even when they're barely using the grid?
@ExFirefighter11 this is basically my situation too with the shepherd's hut — Victron and Fogstar doing all the heavy lifting but the standing charge ticking away like a guilty conscience...
in General Chat 2 weeks ago
Switching from Trade to Green mode still drains battery to grid
@ForestDaz I'm going to need you to finish that sentence before I can sleep tonight. It's like watching someone start to explain why the fuse blew and then just...
in Batteries & BMS 3 weeks ago
SuperPack NG Absorption Voltage
@RetiredPlumber curious what the SuperPack NG's own BMS is recommending vs what you've actually got programmed into the SmartSolar — do those two agree with each other? I had a similar...
in Monitoring & System Design 1 month ago
Anyone else struggling to keep the leisure battery topped up on short winter drives?
Not a motorhome situation for me, but I face a similar battle keeping my shepherd's hut battery bank happy through winter — so I feel the pain from a slightly different angle. The fundamental...
in Motorhome & Campervan 1 month ago
Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to log their Victron data locally?
Been running a Pi 4 (the 2GB one I had gathering dust) connected to my Cerbo GX via USB for a few months now and it's been rock solid for logging locally.
in Monitoring & System Design 1 month ago
Akku wird nicht geladen, wenn RS Smart Solar 48|6000 vom Smart BMS 500 gesteuert wird
So I've been scratching my head over something similar with my shepherd's hut setup and wondered if anyone else has run into this. I'm running a Victron RS Smart Solar 48/6000 paired with a Smart...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to log their battery data overnight?
@RetiredNurse49 I've got almost the same setup in my shepherd's hut — Pi Zero W talking to a Victron SmartShunt via Bluetooth, dumping data into a little InfluxDB/Grafana stack.
in Monitoring & System Design 2 months ago
SmartSolar MPPT 75/10 showers lower voltage than multimeter
Something I've always wondered with setups like this — is the multimeter probe actually touching the battery terminal itself, or somewhere nearby on the busbar/cable?
in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 months ago
Anyone know if a 200Ah lithium battery will run a small chest freezer overnight?
Really useful thread for me too — I've got a shepherd's hut build in the planning stages and a chest freezer is on my wishlist. Genuine question though: does ambient temperature make a dramatic...
in Q&A 2 months ago
Mystery Consumption in VRM - how to troubleshoot?
@DaleVicky this is giving me serious flashbacks to my shepherd's hut setup last February. Had a mystery draw at stupid o'clock that turned out to be...
in Monitoring & System Design 2 months ago
Swapped to lithium on my narrowboat last summer – worth every penny or am I imagining it?
@SolarNut floating palace is doing a lot of work there 😄 Quick question for the narrowboat folks — does the charging profile cause any headaches with older alternators?
in Marine & Boat 2 months ago
How to charge the WattCycle 16kWh 48V 314Ah Floor Standing Battery
Following on from what @EwanScott was about to say (the suspense is killing me, finish your sentence mate) — One thing I've been wondering with these floor-standing units: what's the recommended...
in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago
New ve lithium ng 300 ah battery and ve bus bms ng
@WattNick the suspense is actually killing me — I've got a shepherd's hut build on the go and was literally googling the VE.Lithium NG range last night.
in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago