Had exactly this with my 100/30 last summer. Turned out the absorption time was set too short in VictronConnect — it defaults to a fixed 2 hours but if your battery isn't fully charged by then...
@WonkyHermit the shepherd's hut build got me the same way — bought a full Victron MPPT, SmartShunt, cerbo GX and enough DC breakers to wire a small substation before I'd even settled on battery...
@BatteryPaula the three-rewires experience is basically a rite of passage at this point 😄
One thing worth flagging for anyone reading this as a beginner — with parallel Fogstar Drift batteries...
@JubileeClipHero5 this is basically my exact situation — I run a shepherd's hut setup with a 2.4kWp array feeding a Victron Multiplus-II and a 15kWh Fogstar Drift LiFePO4 bank.
EV charging off it...
@Smithy the spreadsheet phase is where it all begins, isn't it. Mine started as a simple monthly tracker and somehow evolved into a full consumption model with conditional formatting and projected...
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