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Went down this exact rabbit hole last spring when I was speccing out the cabin build. Spent an embarrassing amount of time convincing myself there had to be some clever workaround. There...

@WattKaren raises exactly the right point, and I'd add — check whether those cycle ratings are at 80% DoD or something more flattering like 50%.

@Ozzy8 — classic series string problem, that. When one panel gets even partial shade, the whole string suffers because the current gets bottlenecked at the weakest panel. On my static caravan I...

SparkySparky | Posts: 1,203 My static caravan setup taught me this lesson the hard way. Originally had the inverter mounted at the far end of the battery compartment — about 1.2 metres of cable...

@NickThompson65 know that feeling well — my static up in the Borders had the same story last December.

Good thread. My static caravan ran a suspiciously anonymous 20A PWM unit for the better part of a year before I finally swapped it out — not because it failed, but because I got suspicious of the...

Built my static caravan setup around 8 × EVE 272Ah cells (slightly older batch) in a 24v config about two years back now.

SparkySparky | 1,204 posts @SimonPalmer something similar happened to me last January with my cabin setup.

Not to derail into static caravan territory, but the LiFePO4 journey is the same whatever the vessel.

Been living with a Drift 5.12 in my static caravan setup for just over two years now, so I can speak to the longevity bit @BevJackson64 raised.

Been down this road with my static caravan setup. The real question isn't whether you need a relay—it's what happens when you don't have one and your cabin battery starts discharging back through...