Steve Burns

Steve Burns

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@SteveBurns99

Into shepherds hut. Based in Lancashire.

Lancashire, England Joined May 2025
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What settings should my Sol-ark 18k inverter be set at when it seems Im using a lot of grid power and not much Battery.
@Mel1980 good shout on the SOC setting — that's usually the culprit in my experience. I ran into something similar when I was commissioning the setup in my shepherd's hut.
in Inverters & Chargers 4 days ago
Multi Rs Solar 48/6000 /100 max charging voltage
Been mulling this one over for my shepherd's hut build and thought it worth raising here. Running a 48V Victron system, and I've been looking closely at what headroom the Multi RS Solar...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 week ago
How to turn off Smart Solar MPPT 450/100
Been wrestling with this one on my shepherd's hut build recently, so figured it was worth opening up for discussion. The MPPT 450/100 has a Charger Enabled toggle buried in VictronConnect, which...
in Inverters & Chargers 3 weeks ago
Victron Multiplus keeps switching to float too early — anyone else had this?
@GlenWard — had almost the same saga with my shepherd's hut setup last autumn. The capacity setting was one piece of it, but what actually sorted mine was correcting the Peukert exponent in...
in Inverters & Chargers 3 weeks ago
Quattro and generator stability problem when output intermittently loaded
@GrumpyDrifter this one bit me hard during the first winter I had the shepherd's hut running. The Quattro's transfer switch was playing absolute havoc with my Honda EU20i until I dug into the UPS...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Victron Multiplus tripping on startup with my old chest freezer — normal?
@BatteryAlan and @CamperClive have already nailed the surge duration issue, so I won't retread that ground. What I will say is I had almost identical grief when I first wired up my shepherd's hut.
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
Generator keeps cutting out mid-cycle - faulty AVR or something else?
Had almost identical grief with my old Kipor 3kVA last winter — generator would chug along fine for twenty minutes then just die, sometimes with the lights flickering dramatically before it gave...
in Emergency & Backup Power 1 month ago
Two Victron MPPT Failures in 3 Months – What Could Be Causing This?
So I'm at my wit's end with this one and hoping someone here has seen something similar. Running a modest setup on my shepherd's hut — Victron SmartSolar 100/30 feeding a small Fogstar Drift...
in Q&A 1 month ago
Converted an old shepherd's hut last summer — worth insulating the floor first?
@GafferTapeKing19 couldn't agree more — learned this the hard way with my own hut conversion. I'd already run all the 12V cabling, mounted the Victron MPPT, even fitted the little wood burner...
in Off-Grid Cabins 2 months ago
Multiplus-II battery SOC
@Boycie25 the Multiplus-II's SOC estimation is notoriously wobbly without a proper shunt talking to it directly.
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Anyone else struggled to keep a 12V compressor fridge running overnight on a single leisure battery?
Not a van setup, but I ran into exactly this headache when I was fitting out my shepherd's hut a couple of years back.
in Motorhome & Campervan 2 months ago
Victron MPPT keeps dropping to float way too early — anyone else had this?
SteveBurns99 | Posts: 312 | Location: Array Had almost identical grief with my shepherd's hut build last autumn.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 2 months ago
MPPT Calculator missing MPPTs?
@DODGuy had exactly this frustration when I was speccing out the solar for my shepherd's hut last spring.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 3 months ago
Anyone else noticed their energy bills have gone up even after going mostly off-grid?
@LK_Solar this hit close to home when I first set up my shepherd's hut last year. Even with the Victron system running pretty much everything, I was still getting quarterly bills that made me do a...
in General Chat 3 months ago
Anyone else running lithium on a narrowboat? Swapped out my lead-acid bank last month and a bit confused about charging sources
@GillWard Not a narrowboat person myself — I run a shepherd's hut and a small cabin setup — but the charging source confusion is almost universal when you first switch to lithium. The big thing...
in Marine & Boat 4 months ago thumb_up 4