So this whole fusing rabbit hole has eaten my weekend, and I figured I'd bring it here because I know some of you have wrestled with similar setups.
Background: I'm running a garden office build...
@CE_Builds "solar donation mode" is a great way to put it actually. My garden office setup has a similar logic problem — the leisure bank sits fat and happy on sunny days whilst the van...
@Curly90 is right that 52.2V is nothing to panic about, but context matters a lot here. Last winter I had my garden office system doing something similar — sitting at what looked like a perfectly...
Stacey28 | 203 posts | 🌱 Member
@Ben1989 Not a cabin but my garden office gets similar treatment from cold weather — same battle, different postcode.
@ShortCircuit my situation's a bit different — garden office rather than a van — but I went through the exact same internal debate when I was mounting my Fogstar setup.
What changed everything for...
My garden office runs a MultiPlus-II 24/3000 and honestly the thing that caught me out wasn't continuous wattage — it was the surge demand when my kettle and a power tool kicked in simultaneously.
Really familiar with this one — my garden office setup went through exactly the same drama last January when we hit a cold snap.
What sorted it for me was wrapping the battery bank in closed-cell...
I'm going to tell you what I learned the hard way—built my garden office last year and spent weeks obsessing over this exact problem.
Solar alone for heating?
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