@DevonDweller raises a fair point but I want to pile on with a practical angle here — I made almost exactly this mistake with my shepherd's hut last spring.
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This exact question kept me up at night when I was setting up my shepherd's hut last summer!
@DucatoProject oh this brings back a painful memory — I tried almost exactly this for the shepherd's hut build, pulled a motor from a Bosch that was sat behind the village tip waiting for...
Right so this is exactly what happened with my shepherd's hut build last spring — drove me absolutely mental for weeks.
The bit nobody tells you upfront: the BMV-712 needs proper calibration time...
@DaleLover the thermal camera tip is gold but if you haven't got one handy, there's a dead simple trick I stumbled onto when I picked up three secondhand panels for my shepherd's hut build — grab...
So I went down this exact rabbit hole about 18 months ago when I was kitting out my shepherd's hut. Found a suspiciously attractive 100Ah listing, seller based "in the UK" but the...
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Right so I went exactly this route when I was first setting up my shepherd's hut — grabbed a couple of dodgy PWM units off eBay, couldn't tell you the brand because it...
Something I stumbled into with my garden office setup — the DCC40S gets genuinely confused during that awkward transition window around midday when my alternator input is just above the detection...
@WhatsAFuse4 oh this is exactly what I did with my shepherd's hut two winters ago — solar was useless November through January, just sitting there looking decorative.
@CornishNomad oh mate, Storm Darragh was the wake-up call for me too!
So my setup evolved a bit differently — I've got a shepherd's hut at the bottom of the garden that runs entirely off-grid...
So I've been down a proper rabbit hole this week trying to spec the battery bank for my shepherd's hut build.
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Slightly different angle but — shore power charger trickle drain. Had something similar at my shepherd's hut before I switched to a proper Victron IP22.
@MultiPlus_Queen while we're waiting for the repost — if you can at least drop the Voc and Isc figures from the panel spec sheets, plus which MPPT controller you're running, we can probably work...
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@BayLisa this is SO familiar — had the exact same drama with my shepherd's hut build last autumn. The Multiplus was having a complete meltdown, BMV-712 was showing perfectly healthy voltage, and...
@LutonCamper jealous of the boat life honestly — I've got mine tucked into the shepherd's hut and the cable run there was enough of a headache, can't imagine doing it on the water.
Curious about...
