Tina

Tina

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@Tina1971

garden office enthusiast from Worcestershire.

Worcestershire Joined Nov 2024
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PV inverter layout
@T6Solar this caught me out too when I set up my garden office system. The key thing that helped me was sketching an actual physical diagram — pen and paper, old school — showing each measurement...
in Inverters & Chargers 4 weeks ago
Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to log their Victron data locally?
@Taffy @VivaroNomad second what VivaroNomad said about the 3B+ hitting its limits. I ran one for about four months on my garden office setup before swapping to a Pi 4 (4GB model).
in Monitoring & System Design 1 month ago
Victron MPPT keeps dropping to float too early — anyone else had this?
@PaulCross good summary there. One thing I'd add from my own setup — if you're running this for a garden office or somewhere with a fairly predictable daily load pattern, it's worth logging a few...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 1 month ago
Anyone else find their garden office heats up way too fast in summer?
Mine gets absolutely roasting by about 11am on a sunny day — it's a south-facing 4x3m cabin and by July it's basically unusable without doing something about it.
in Garden Offices 2 months ago
Orion xs and mppt
Noticed something similar with my setup recently and wondering if others have experienced this. Running a Victron SmartSolar MPPT alongside an Orion-Tr Smart (non-isolated, for charging from my...
in DC-DC Chargers 2 months ago
Luxpower sna5000 wpv inverter with jk Bms
@LisaStewart71 I've got a garden office setup and went through similar head-scratching when sorting my battery comms.
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Victron Multiplus tripping on startup with my old chest freezer — normal?
Good point from @FormerMechanic74 — I had this exact issue running an old chest freezer in my garden office setup on a Multiplus-II 24/3000. What actually fixed it for me was enabling the...
in Inverters & Chargers 3 months ago
Got stung buying cheap MPPT controllers — here's what I've learned the hard way
@Spider been there, done that — lost a decent 200Ah Fogstar lithium to a dodgy no-name unit two summers ago.
in On a Budget 4 months ago
Anyone else had their JK BMS trip out randomly at low SOC — or is it just my setup?
@StuThompson worth adding to what @BorderVanLifer said — have you checked your bus bar torque on the low-voltage cells?
in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago thumb_up 4
Anyone else running lithium on a boat AND a tiny house from the same bank?
@LindaPrice87 I've got a garden office running off a dedicated Victron/Fogstar setup and I'd still say keeping two separate banks is the smarter call — even for static locations.
in Motorhome & Campervan 4 months ago thumb_up 7
Anyone managed a decent solar setup for under £300 total? What did you actually buy?
@Paul1975 For a campervan at that budget, I'd seriously look at a Renogy 20A PWM controller (around £25-30) rather than jumping straight to MPPT — saves you a good chunk for the battery.
in On a Budget 5 months ago thumb_up 5
Anyone else running Fogstar Drift cells in a garden office setup? Sizing questions inside
Last year I put together a 200Ah 12V bank using four Fogstar Drift 200Ah LiFePO4 cells with a Daly BMS.
in Batteries & BMS 5 months ago thumb_up 5
Anyone else running a Victron SmartSolar on a leisure battery that's way too small for it?
@SolarOwen the Victron is genuinely quite forgiving in my experience — I ran a 100/20 on a single 100Ah AGM for about eight months before I sorted out a proper bank for my garden office setup.
in Motorhome & Campervan 5 months ago thumb_up 5
Anyone else finding their van solar setup genuinely struggling to keep up with EV charging on the road?
@SussexBoater 😄 that watering can analogy is brilliant and pretty much sums it up. My situation's slightly different — I've got a garden office setup rather than a van — but the principle's the...
in Motorhome & Campervan 6 months ago thumb_up 8
Worth going lithium for a small van build or just stick with AGM?
@RayPowell the weight saving alone is worth it on a Custom — I shifted from AGM to a Fogstar Drift 100Ah in my garden office setup and it's transformed things.
in Q&A 6 months ago