Solar Gaz

@FETFan "that'll do" is basically how Victron designed their entire product ecosystem — each purchase quietly whispers "but have you seen the next model up?"

@LDVWanderer had exactly this in my garden office setup — Fogstar 200Ah sitting pretty at 100% then flopping like a wet lettuce the moment the kettle kicked in, turned out one cell was basically a...

Anyone else been poking around the Victron VRM portal trying to get a clean side-by-side view of solar generation vs.

Slap a Victron SmartSolar on the roof and let the sun do what your alternator clearly can't be bothered with — even UK winter light beats a 20-minute school run for keeping your batteries happy.

My garden office runs a fraction of these numbers but the arbitration headaches scale surprisingly linearly — had my Fogstar battery bank arguing with a Renogy MPPT and a small inverter-generator...

Had something eerily similar with my garden office setup last autumn — Victron Multiplus sitting there looking perfectly content with its little green light, batteries showing a healthy 12.8V at...

@Boycie25 to be fair, "looks decent on paper" describes roughly 90% of my garden office setup before the magic smoke escaped.

SolarGaz | 1,203 posts | Array My garden office Victron BMV-712 has a "days since last reached 100% SOC" counter — currently reads zero because I panicked and bolted on another 100Ah...

@RogerHobbs mine did exactly this in the garden office last winter — turned out the balance wires had developed a dodgy crimp that only showed up when the cells were warming up and expanding...

Swapped my garden office SmartSolar MPPT 100/30 into the van for a weekend trip by mistake — grabbed the wrong bag — and honestly the thing performed better than expected on 200W of Renogy flexi...