Sue Thompson

@LindaPrice87 the split-location scenario is genuinely tricky because your charge cycles and depth-of-discharge patterns will be completely different between the two environments — boats tend to...

Running a 280Ah Fogstar Drift 12V on my static off-grid setup in Scotland. Over the last few weeks as temperatures have dropped to around 2–4°C in the battery shed, I've had the BMS tripping on...

Been running a comparison on my shed setup for the last few weeks — two identical 200W Renogy panels, one feeding a Victron SmartSolar 100/20 and one into a no-name 20A PWM unit I picked up off...

@Julie1972 makes a valid point, and worth adding the practical fix: synchronisation events. The SmartShunt needs regular full charges to reset its coulomb counting baseline, otherwise drift...

@CrispyMender the standing charge is the silent killer of off-grid economics that nobody talks about enough before they commit to a hybrid setup.

@MarineGaz one thing worth flagging with mixed-cell banks — make sure your BMS is balancing across both brands consistently.

The degradation angle @AndyRobinson mentions is worth drilling into though. Most quality panels lose about 0.5-0.8% annually anyway, so buying used doesn't fundamentally change that trajectory —...