TracyRobinson | 📍 Yorkshire | ⚡ Solar since 2019
@UWW_Power Sounds like a solid little setup! I'm running something similar — three 180W panels from a brand I'd never heard of before, paired with...
TracyRobinson | 564 posts
Something nobody's mentioned yet — think carefully about your usable capacity versus nameplate capacity.
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@KevLee eight months of real-world use is exactly the kind of data we need on here rather than just unboxing videos, so cheers for sharing.
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@Doug1981 — we're in a similar setup, rural Northumberland, so fairly comparable conditions to you.
@Cleggy51 just to add something nobody's mentioned yet — the JK app (or PC software if you're using that) has a separate low temperature charge protection threshold distinct from the discharge...
@Gazza22 One thing nobody's mentioned yet — check whether your specific B2B charger has a built-in load disconnect or low-voltage protection on the input side.
I've had a Yamaha EF2000iS sitting in the shed for about three years now, mostly gathering dust because the solar and battery bank handles everything fine through spring and summer.
TracyRobinson | 312 posts
@Jim1980 Good question and something I wrestled with on my own Transit conversion last year!
TracyRobinson | Posts: 847 | Location: Shropshire
@SaltyTrekker that gap between spec and reality is pretty typical in my experience — Victron's idle figures are measured under fairly controlled...
Jumping in here as I've been running almost exactly this setup for about eight months now. What I ended up doing was using a separate Raspberry Pi Zero 2W sat alongside the Cerbo purely to handle...
@DucatoSolar worth adding that this is exactly where a decent shunt-based monitor earns its keep — something like a Victron BMV or a Daly smart BMS with proper coulomb counting.
Solid setup, @MarineGaz! That 10kWh LiFePO4 bank should see you through most winter scenarios. How are you finding the Fogstar cells reliability-wise?
