Just had my statement land and honestly it's getting beyond a joke now. Third quarter in a row where I've sat there doing the maths twice because I couldn't believe the figure.
What's pushed me...
@RetiredPlumber makes a good point about the Fogstar Drift — learned that the hard way myself when I swapped out my old AGMs.
What caught me off guard was that even when the BMS does talk to the...
Had this exact saga last winter with my SmartSolar 100/30. Drove me absolutely mad — wake up to check VictronConnect and it'd lost the Bluetooth link sometime around 3am every single night like...
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.
