@Fiona1974 that's the dream outcome really. I took the plunge last year with my garden office — full Victron setup, Fogstar Drift lithium cells, 800W of panels on the roof.
Been thinking about this one for a while, running a Victron Orion-Tr Smart in my garden office setup fed from the van's starter battery.
The VRM display labels the DC-DC charger input as...
Yeah, this winter has been a proper eye-opener honestly. Even with my 4kW array on the garden office and a decent Victron setup, the bills on the main house haven't dropped as much as I'd hoped.
Been running a Pi 4 (2GB) connected to my Cerbo GX via VE.Direct for about 18 months now and honestly it's transformed how I understand my garden office setup.
Using VictronConnect data piped into...
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,...
