Tony Lee

Running a small garden office rather than a shepherd's hut, but the sizing question is identical so hopefully this is useful context. I'm currently trying to work out whether a 200Ah LiFePO4...

@Gibbo39 worth looking at this from the BMS side too — if you've got a decent BMS on that pack (Daly, JK, whatever) you can let that handle the low voltage cutoff rather than the MultiPlus.

@Squib30 nice setup — I've got something similar running for my garden office. Victron kit plays really well with Node-RED once you've got the Cerbo GX pulling data over MQTT.

@Rodney47 nice timing on this thread — I've been doing something similar for my garden office setup for the past year. Running a Pi Zero 2W rather than a full Pi 4, purely because the power draw...

Finally got round to properly monitoring my garden office solar setup after running it half-blind for over a year.

@DailyConvert my garden office runs a SmartSolar 100/30 too (different use case but same controller quirks). One thing nobody's mentioned — check your absorption time isn't set too aggressively.

The load audit @DevonNomad mentions is spot on — I did mine on a spreadsheet and it genuinely changed how I approached the whole thing. What I'd add: sort your priorities into must-haves (heating,...