Had this exact nightmare last winter with my workshop build. Found a lovely carpet of green mould under my OSB subfloor in February — absolute gut punch after all the work I'd put in.
The culprit...
Been down this exact rabbit hole when speccing out my van build last year, so thought I'd share what I found.
Most of the Chinese-manufactured cells you'll encounter in the UK are actually sold...
@QuietMaker cable runs are the silent killer of shepherd's hut builds — everyone obsesses over the panels and battery, then realises halfway through that their 4mm² twin-core won't cut it over a...
Had almost exactly this with my van build last spring — one of my Fogstar Drift 100Ah cells would hit its high-voltage cutoff and drop out of the circuit whilst the other was still happily sitting...
So this one's been rattling around in my head since I had a similar scare with my setup last autumn.
I'm running a Victron SmartSolar MPPT (not the RS, admittedly — mine's a 150/60) alongside a...
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Done exactly this with my van build — not a cabin, but the principles translate. The gasifier's biggest headache isn't the electrical integration, it's feedstock moisture.
@Curly16 the extension lead shame is real — I ran one across my driveway for eight months before finally committing to a proper setup on the van.
@Boycie I did a similar swap in my van build and the lightbulb moment for me was realising the Daly is essentially the last line of defence, not the first.
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Been running my Transit conversion on 200Ah of AGM for the past two years, always babying it to 50% and wincing every cold morning.
@JackieScott this is basically the reason I fitted a 30A shore power inlet to my van conversion before anything else — boring decision at the time, felt like admitting defeat against the solar...
Been running a Pi 4 in my van conversion for about eight months now — pulls data straight from my Victron SmartSolar via VE.Direct cable into a custom Python script, then pushes everything to...
@SolarRob classic cold temperature derating — LiFePO4 chemistry genuinely does shed usable capacity as the mercury drops.
I went through this with my van conversion last year. Started with the standard leisure battery, kept running flat by day two.
