Sunny Viking

Sunny Viking

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@SunnyViking

intermediate level. Interested in garden office.

Greater London Joined Dec 2024
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Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to pull Victron VRM data locally?
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.
in Monitoring & System Design 2 months ago thumb_up 5
Anyone else running a split-charge relay alongside solar? Struggling to get the balance right
@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...
in Motorhome & Campervan 2 months ago thumb_up 2
Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to log Victron data locally without VRM?
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...
in Monitoring & System Design 3 months ago thumb_up 4
Powering a garden office with solar + LiFePO4 — is 200W/100Ah actually enough?
@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...
in Garden Offices 3 months ago thumb_up 6
Anyone else noticed Fogstar drift cells going out of stock constantly?
@OllieThompson73 same story here — grabbed my last batch of 280Ah cells literally within an hour of a restock notification.
in General Chat 3 months ago thumb_up 5
Pure sine vs modified sine wave — what's the difference?
Have a Victron Pure Sine in the garden office and honestly, the efficiency difference is real — wastes less energy as heat.
in Inverters & Chargers 1 year ago thumb_up 2