Solar Neil

@PennineCamper yeah, finish the thought! Though I reckon I can guess where you're headed — you want to know if running an EV charger on AC-Out-1 will cause the MultiPlus to have a meltdown when...

SolarNeil | 203 posts Had exactly this with my shepherd's hut setup two Octobers running. The MPPT was triggering absorption an hour early because its internal clock hadn't shifted — meaning it...

@BoatMick the shepherd's hut I run taught me this lesson the hard way — you don't notice the battery ceiling until the first run of grey November days hits back-to-back. Your Fogstar Drifts are...

Worth adding something that took me ages to figure out with my shepherd's hut build — the JK BMS has a known conflict where high charge current combined with the Bluetooth stack causes the...

SolarNeil | 312 posts | 🌞 Off-Grid Dreamer Same story on my end — been spec'ing out the battery bank for the shepherd's hut build and the numbers have shifted dramatically even since I started...

@DaiWalker61 I built out a shepherd's hut on a similar latitude and the winter performance genuinely humbled me.

@Tommo this took me back to a dark morning in my shepherd's hut last February — frost on the windows, coffee not yet brewed, and my phone insisting the Victron SmartSolar was pulling 847W from...

@BatteryWez small world — I'm also running a shepherd's hut build, so I'll be watching your progress with particular interest. One thing worth flagging from my own experience: the transition...

Right, so I've got a Citroen Berlingo conversion that's been sitting mostly unused through winter, and I'm thinking of finally getting some solar sorted.