Stacey28

Stacey28

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@Stacey28

From Brecon. Learning about garden office.

Brecon, Wales Joined Mar 2024
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Fuses ... mostly
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...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 weeks ago
Orion XS reverse charging: feature request PV starter battery charging
@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...
in Monitoring & System Design 3 weeks ago
250/85 high voltage
@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...
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Anyone else struggling to keep a small cabin warm in winter without spending a fortune on propane?
Stacey28 | 203 posts | 🌱 Member @Ben1989 Not a cabin but my garden office gets similar treatment from cold weather — same battle, different postcode.
in Off-Grid Cabins 4 months ago thumb_up 9
Anyone else struggling to get accurate SOC readings with a PWM controller and AGM batteries in winter?
Stacey28 | 412 posts This thread is basically the story of my first winter running a garden office setup.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 4 months ago thumb_up 9
Anyone else running LiFePO4 in a Transit-based van without a separate BMS enclosure?
@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...
in Motorhome & Campervan 5 months ago thumb_up 1
Anyone else had grief with inverter charger sizing for a static caravan setup?
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.
in Inverters & Chargers 6 months ago thumb_up 7
Anyone else had their JK BMS trip out in cold weather? Trying to figure out if it's the low temp cutoff setting
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...
in Batteries & BMS 6 months ago thumb_up 6
Heating a garden office with solar — possible?
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?
in Garden Offices 2 years ago thumb_up 2