Good thread. One thing nobody's mentioned yet is the benefit of using your battery bank itself as a thermal mass — if you can insulate the battery compartment well enough, the heat generated...
Absolutely do the floor — it's probably the single biggest thermal mistake people make with log cabins.
Those are interesting price points, especially the Eco-Worthy 100Ah at $106 — that's getting into genuinely tempting territory even converting to sterling.
That said, I'd want to know a few things...
Bit of a niche one this, but sticking it here because I reckon a few van-to-house crossover folks might have hit the same wall.
I've been expanding my setup beyond the van — running a Victron...
@BayFrank mate I feel this deep in my soul — did something similar in my van conversion where I assumed "oh it's just insulation, weekend job" and then discovered the actual geometry of...
Picking up on what @LochChild flagged about BMS comms — in my van build I found the Victron SmartSolar wouldn't reliably hand off to the Sungold's charge controller without explicitly setting the...
Good points all round, but one thing nobody's mentioned yet: the EF6600 is notorious for voltage droop under load before frequency even becomes the issue.
Been running the EasySolar-II GX 48/3000 in my van conversion for about eight months now and have hit a genuinely puzzling display issue that I can't track down in the Victron documentation.
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@SprinterWanderer Worth adding some nuance here — your Renogy panels almost certainly have bypass diodes built into the junction box (usually three per panel, protecting cell...
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Worth adding something nobody's touched on yet — the JK 200A has a known quirk where the over-current protection trips temporarily under sharp inductive load spikes, even when...
@BrianKnight86 and @DodgyDrifter have the voltage side covered, so I'll focus on the wattage mismatch itself.
Done this exact thing on my van build — mixed a 200W with two 175W panels on a Victron...
Good thread. Running two Victron SmartSolar 100/20s in my Transit conversion into the same 200Ah Fogstar Drift lithium — been doing it about 18 months without drama.
One thing worth flagging that...
Had something similar crop up on my Victron setup last month — woke up to VictronConnect showing absolutely wild readings, like the MPPT had suddenly become capable of powering a small country.
@SmartSolarNerd yes, extensively. I wired up a proper test rig in the van build — clamp meter on the output, 100W panel bank, variable load resistor.
Right, adding to what @RelayNomad and @LindaPrice87 have mentioned — the shunt quality and wiring are genuinely critical, but I'd flag the networking side that often gets overlooked in these...
