Hey @OllieRoss74, sounds like a great setup! Just to clarify something that might help — the BMV 712 measures the voltage across its shunt, so the common ground connection is really just giving it...
I've got two 175W mono panels on my Transit (so 350W total) wired in series going into a Victron SmartSolar 100/30 MPPT controller, and honestly the numbers in December and January have been a bit...
Stacey72 | 312 posts
Ours is nothing glamorous but it works — 180Ah Fogstar Drift bank (noticing a theme on this forum!) with 160W of panels on the roof, which frankly isn't enough.
So I've finally got my off-grid setup mostly sorted — 8kWh of lithium (SOK 206Ah batteries), 2.4kW of solar on the roof, and a Honda EU22i generator for backup and winter top-ups.
Cheers for the responses lads. Worth adding that the warranty support is quite different between the two – Victron's got proper UK distributors and you'll get faster turnaround if something goes...
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