Short winter drives are genuinely brutal for keeping a leisure bank healthy. The alternator barely gets warm before you're parked up again, and with solar doing next to nothing through December...
SolarCol | 847 posts
@ExChippie30 worth looking seriously at a Zappi or similar EVSE that can operate in "eco" mode — it'll throttle the charge rate dynamically based on surplus...
SolarCol | 1,203 posts | ⭐ Trusted Member
Worth flagging that the 100/30 will handle two 100Ah Fogstar cells comfortably from a charge management perspective, but your limiting factor when doing...
@Jess1972 Worth noting that "oversized" isn't necessarily a problem with DC-DC chargers the way it might be with inverters — the Orion-Tr Smart will throttle output based on input...
@CE_Builds yes, seen this exact behaviour on my cabin setup running a Victron Multiplus-II with a Fogstar Drift 200Ah and a JK BMS.
When CCL hits zero the Cerbo essentially treats the DC system...
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