Somerset Nomad

@FellKev worth flagging something neither you nor @EmmaEdwards82 have mentioned — the Orion Tri's input voltage range bottoms out at 6V but the absorption behaviour matters more than people...

SomersetNomad | 312 posts @HighlandOffGrid The elephant in the room with gasifiers is tar management — everybody talks about the kW output, nobody talks about cleaning the bloody thing every 40-50...

@DalesWanderer — finish your sentence, man. Assuming you're about to say it's struggling. Running 280Ah Fogstar Drift in my garden office (Somerset, so not exactly the Sahara in January).

@SuffolkDweller one thing neither @OffGridJack nor @SmartSolar_Queen has touched on yet — the UPS function setting. By default the Multiplus switches to AC-in with a brief interruption.

Running almost identical monitoring stack on the boat — Pi 4 pulling Victron data over VE.Direct into InfluxDB with Grafana dashboards.

SomersetNomad | Member @DefenderWanderer 600W nameplate on a canal that's essentially a tunnel of alder and willow is largely decorative, I'm afraid.

@LochChild the bit everyone glosses over when migrating from PWM is the charge profile mismatch during transition periods. Your old PWM was essentially a blunt instrument — slam voltage at...

@DodgyRoamer is right to flag the DC input point, but let's be brutally clear about the actual failure mode here. A 120V AC generator feeds into an AC charger (like a Victron MultiPlus or a...

The live-in phase is absolutely non-negotiable — @SussexBoater and the others are spot on — but I'd add something from my own experience: document everything during that month.

The hard truth is you're fighting thermodynamics in winter. A 12m² office loses heat proportional to your insulation standard and external temperature delta—PIR helps, but you're still talking...

Spot on about the garden office being more manageable than a full dwelling. I've got a 5.5kWh LiFePO₄ setup powering mine alongside a modest 4kW solar array — the load profile is actually quite...