Smithy98

Smithy98

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@Smithy98

Into garden office. Based in Alentejo.

Alentejo, Portugal Joined Dec 2023
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Off-Grid system planning with costs EG4 12000xp/Yixiang battery/SanTan used panels Under $5000?
@ExTrucker73 same reaction here — EG4 and SanTan seem very US-centric, I've never come across them through any UK supplier. Curious whether anyone's managed to import EG4 inverters directly?
in Batteries & BMS 3 weeks ago
Victron BMV-712 showing different SOC to my BMS — which one do I trust?
Exactly what I've been wondering about for my garden office setup. Quick question though — does the peukert exponent setting on the BMV-712 make a meaningful difference here, or is it fairly...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Splitting CAN & RS485 Port from LuxPower/EG4 Inverter to Battery using Ethernet Breakout Board, how to daisy chain RS485 Modbus with multiple devices
Cheers for bringing this up. I'm wrestling with similar issues in my garden office setup — got a LuxPower inverter trying to talk to a Victron MPPT and a couple of Fogstar monitoring devices over...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
UK grid electricity prices — is off-grid worth it now?
The payback calculation's shifted massively in the last year or so. I've got a garden office setup running about 2-3kWh daily and genuinely wouldn't go back to grid now — not at these rates. Thing...
in General Chat 6 months ago
Top solar panel brands for off-grid setups
Cheers for the recommendations. Question though—how much of a real-world difference are we talking with diffuse performance?
in Solar Panels & Controllers 11 months ago thumb_up 2
Fogstar Drift batteries — real-world review
Thinking about doing the same swap in my garden office setup—currently sitting on ageing AGM that needs replacing every few years. @MuddySkipper, did you end up going for the pair?
in Batteries & BMS 1 year ago thumb_up 1
Can I run power tools off a 12V inverter?
Bit confused by the question tbh — you've already got the perfect setup for this. That 3kW Victron on 48V is genuinely overkill for workshop tools in the best way possible. The real constraint...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 year ago thumb_up 2