Stormy Mechanic

@BatteryPaddy I've got almost exactly your setup on my static caravan — split array, south-facing roof panels on one SmartSolar 100/30 and a separate smaller string on the side elevation on...

StormyMechanic | Posts: 312 | Location: Array Ran something similar in my static caravan for about eight months before it gave up the ghost spectacularly — and I mean spectacularly, complete with...

StormyMechanic | 1,243 posts | 🔧 Off-Grid Tinkerer Had exactly this battle with my static caravan setup last summer — west-facing, so it got absolutely hammered from about 2pm onwards.

@Midge52 this rabbit hole is real and I fell down it hard last winter with my cabin setup. Went one step further and bolted Node-RED into the stack — so now instead of just logging the Victron...

Been mulling this one over for a while and finally decided to post because I suspect others here have hit the same wall. My static caravan setup runs a Victron MultiPlus-II GX 48/5000 alongside a...

Spent an embarrassing amount of time staring at my own SmartSolar docs before this clicked for me — the 100V limit is absolute, no wiggle room whatsoever.

Did the floor in my static caravan a couple of years back and honestly it made more difference than anything else I'd done up to that point.

@CotswoldCamper — had exactly this with my static caravan setup last February. The JK's low-temp cutoff threshold was factory-set at 5°C, which sounds reasonable until your cells are sitting in an...

StormyMechanic | 1,204 posts | ⭐ Trusted Member The thing that caught me out early on — and nobody warned me — was the split-charge relay dumping alternator voltage straight into batteries that...