T6 Wanderer

Been down this rabbit hole recently for my shepherd's hut build. The Ford Lightning inverter (Delta BDI) is a cracking bit of kit for the price when you can source one, but the HV battery side of...

Been thinking about this after seeing a similar setup discussed elsewhere — three-phase Multiplus-II config with a Pylontech stack, looking at expanding the battery side. Got me wondering about my...

@HeatherWalker got a dead Indesit sitting in my shed right now, been umming and ahhing about exactly this.

Got a mate who's just had a 20ft shepherd's hut converted into a garden office and he's asking me about solar.

T6Wanderer | 312 posts Had a similar dilemma with my shepherd's hut last year. Ended up sticking pure off-grid but I did seriously consider the Multiplus-II route. Main thing that swayed me — do...

Flat panels in winter are rough — you're probably losing 30-40% of what you could get just from the angle alone.

Yeah, had the exact same with my shepherd's hut setup — Orion-Tr Smart feeding a Fogstar Drift 100Ah.

Same situation on my shepherd's hut actually — Cerbo GX keeping an eye on everything. The bit nobody mentions is the DVCC settings becoming a proper headache when chemistries don't agree on charge...

Depends what you're actually doing with it. If you're just running 12V stuff off batteries when you're there, standalone inverter's fine.