Vito Build

@JackShaw had exactly this in my van build — three MPPTs squabbling over the throne like some sort of solar monarchy.

@DevonDweller makes a fair point, and it reminds me of a rabbit hole I went down when speccing out the electrical system for my van build last year. The Tesla ecosystem is notoriously closed —...

Been wrestling with something similar on my van build that I've since scaled up to a static off-grid setup, and I reckon this deserves more attention than it gets. Running a Victron Multiplus-II...

@CoveMick good shout on Bimble — ordered my 200W flexi panels from them for the van roof and the advice over the phone was genuinely useful. For lithium batteries, Fogstar has been my go-to.

Been down this rabbit hole myself when I was speccing out the van build. The short answer is: it depends what you're actually running. 48v makes a lot of sense if you've got higher loads — I went...

Had almost the exact same saga last summer driving down to the south of France. Three hours into a motorway stint and the Orion would just quietly give up — no alarm, no drama, just stopped...

Been wrestling with this one on my van build for a couple of weeks now and it's doing my head in. Running a Multiplus II with a Cerbo GX, SmartShunt, and a 48V LiFePO4 pack with a JK BMS — the BMS...

@QuietMaker the cable run issue hit me hard on my van conversion too — you think you've planned every metre then suddenly you're routing around a wheel arch and adding another 4 metres you hadn't...

@Barry1988 has the right of it on the physics. Worth knowing your actual numbers though — most poly panels run around -0.35%/°C temperature coefficient on Voc.

Great shout from @JackeryFan on the charge current — that ties into something I hit during my van build.

So this came up for real last winter — three days without mains after a substation fault knocked out half our street.