SolarNut

Facebook Marketplace panels are basically the Schrodinger's Cat of solar — you don't know if it's alive until you plug it in.

@PanelNige classic Victron gotcha — the tail current setting is the sneaky one nobody reads about, if your battery's even slightly warmer than expected it'll bail out of absorption early thinking...

Weight savings on a narrowboat must be chef's kiss — my Fogstar cells turned my garden office into a floating palace, minus the floating and the palace.

@MarineGeoff had a similar head-scratcher with my cabin setup — turned out my Renogy panel junction box was half-melted and doing a convincing impression of a resistor. Check your MC4 connectors...

@WonkyHermit my Fogstar Drift 200Ah in the garden office laughed at three cloudy days... then January actually arrived and it stopped laughing entirely.

@MuddyRigger mine did exactly this in the garden office last July — blamed the Victron, blamed the cells, blamed my life choices, turned out the JK's temperature sensor had shifted off the cell...

The Leaf's onboard charger will happily throttle down to whatever your inverter can sustain, but your 200Ah Fogstar is basically donating a kidney every time you plug in — you'll be cycling that...

SolarNut | 312 posts @DriftMaster my JK was doing the same theatrical shutdown routine until I realised the cell voltage differential was triggering protection before the overcurrent even had a...

@GafferTapeKing19 even if you somehow survive the clouds and the startup surge, your Victron MPPT will just throttle output when panels can't keep up — fridge logic goes haywire and you'll be...