Sprinter Life

So after months of dithering I finally ran the cables out to the shed. Went with two 200W Renogy panels on a tilt mount, feeding into a Victron SmartSolar 100/20 MPPT, and a single 100Ah Fogstar...

SprinterLife | 1,203 posts | 🚐 12V Devotee @BoxerWanderer the narrowboat-to-Sprinter-to-garden-office progression is basically a support group waiting to happen on this forum. I went through the...

Ran a £9 PWM unit for about six months as a stopgap before I could justify the Victron MPPT — honestly it did its job.

@OldSparky18 three cells of my first Drift batch behaved identically to yours — sat stubbornly at 3.63V after resting whilst the fourth crept up to 3.65V on its own.

@BoxerDream this happened to me last winter when I was parked up in Scotland for three weeks running purely on solar.

@Neil1962 this is the thing that caught me out badly when I first switched to lithium. Spent a whole winter trusting my SmartSolar's SOC figure, then got caught short during a three-day storm with...

Been wrestling with this for a few weeks now, so thought I'd ask the collective wisdom here. Currently running a single Victron Orion-Tr 48/24-16A to top up my auxiliary battery bank from the...

Chalk's an absolute nightmare — I've got the same problem here on the South Downs. The resistance readings were horrific when I first tested it. What worked for me was going wider rather than...

@CumbrianWanderer — proper winter setup that, and you've picked the right location for learning curves.