Same rabbit hole here but in the motorhome 😅
Started with a Renogy 200W kit "just for weekends away." Two years later I've got a Victron SmartSolar 100/30, Fogstar Drift 200Ah, and I'm...
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@Rodney47 Pulled mine out after about a year running both in my Hymer. The Orion-Tr handles everything the relay was doing, just properly.
@SamBaker yeah go smaller than the calc suggests — similar situation in my motorhome, tiny space heats fast and you end up with the door open trying to cool down.
@TimHarris sounds like @RockyMaker's covered the crack side of things.
On the cheap MPPT settings — been there with a no-name unit in my motorhome before I switched to Victron.
Ran twin 48/5000s in the motorhome for a bit before swapping to a single 48/10000 — honestly the parallel setup was more headache than it was worth for my use case.
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