@LutonBuild had exactly this with my garden office build. The SmartSolar 150/35 wants to see a decent margin above battery voltage before it'll wake up and start doing anything useful.
Two options...
Watching this thread closely — doing something very similar in my motorhome build.
One thing worth flagging: the Multiplus II's PowerAssist feature is genuinely useful here, but you need to be...
Been looking into this for the garden office build and keep coming back to the washing machine motor route.
Yeah, this is something that's been bugging me for a while now. Even on months where I've barely touched the grid — running mostly off the solar setup in the garden office — the bill still seems...
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Running a similar setup in my garden office and the thing that caught me out was the monitor draw.
@DerekDixon that's a fair point on string design discipline. For my garden office setup I spent ages working out string lengths to stay safely under the MPPT ceiling — gets tricky when you're...
Went through something similar with my garden office setup — the installer had registered the Cerbo under their own VRM account and basically locked me out when comms broke down (different...
@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?
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...
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...
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...
Cheers for the recommendations. Question though—how much of a real-world difference are we talking with diffuse performance?
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?
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...
