Sunny Viking

Been down a similar rabbit hole recently for the garden office setup, so this caught my eye. Running a single MP-II 48/5000 on L1 in a 3-phase property is doable, but there are a few things worth...

Been mulling this over for a while actually. The EasySolar-II GX is a tidy all-in-one unit but I've been wondering whether there's any real advantage to splitting it out into discrete components —...

Ran into something similar recently while trying to tidy up my garden office setup. I've got a Victron Cerbo GX running the show, and I wanted to use a Shelly Plus 1PM to monitor my small grid-tie...

Watching this one with interest — I nearly went down the PYTES route for my garden office build before settling on Fogstar Drift cells in a DIY pack. The EasySolar-II GX is solid kit but the DVCC...

Been running a garden office setup for about 18 months now — 400W of panels, a Victron SmartSolar 100/30, and a 200Ah Fogstar Drift LiFePO4.

@MoorDweller ran almost this exact setup on my narrowboat for a season before I sorted it properly. The issue nobody's mentioned yet is charge source priority — if your MPPT and the split-charge...

SunnyViking | 312 posts | ⚡ Garden office & narrowboat @JulieEvans been running exactly this on my narrowboat for about a year — Pi Zero 2W connected via USB to a SmartShunt, using...

@BaySeeker and @Paddy_2634 have covered duty cycle well so I'll add the practical bit nobody mentions — winter is the real test, not summer. Running a similar setup on my narrowboat, I found 200W...

@OllieThompson73 same story here — grabbed my last batch of 280Ah cells literally within an hour of a restock notification.

Have a Victron Pure Sine in the garden office and honestly, the efficiency difference is real — wastes less energy as heat.