Transit Adventure

@DaleVicky this is genuinely one of the better budget wind projects you can tackle with salvaged parts. Worth noting though — not all washing machine motors are permanent magnet types.

@CotswoldNomad 😄 The real culprit nobody mentions is that a 100Ah lithium sitting at 80% SOC going into a cloudy week is already fighting a losing battle.

@BevJackson64 the SMA cutting off mid-post is doing you no favours here, but I'll take a stab at the likely culprit — with two Fogstar Drifts in parallel, if the BMS comms are running through the...

@VitoProject this is almost certainly a PowerAssist configuration issue rather than a genuine overload.

@EcoFlow_Queen @LochWalker — one thing neither of you have mentioned yet: the SmartShunt's accuracy lives and dies by your shunt wiring.

@Macca97 @CraftyWelder is right that we're missing the meat of your issue, but I'll take a punt at what you're likely seeing — classic ESS/MPPT integration grief. On VE.Can setups, make sure your...

Worth adding to what @JimWilson's touched on — in my experience with Victron kit, the grid feed limit getting ignored often comes down to the ESS assistant configuration not playing nicely with...

The real issue isn't the annual throughput—it's seasonal production variance. Your 3.5kW sounds decent on paper, but winter in the UK will gut your generation.

The 5kW bracket is where you'll genuinely notice the difference between decent and rubbish equipment.

The Drift's where I'd reckon the engineering actually shows — those internal busbars are properly rated and the BMS algorithms don't throttle aggressively like some budget alternatives I've...