Been down this rabbit hole recently while planning the electrical setup for my tiny house build, so this thread is timely.
The jump from 48V to higher voltage systems (I've been looking at 102V+...
Been through this exact debate fitting out my tiny house setup. The headline figure on a cheap PWM unit looks attractive but the maths falls apart pretty quickly once you factor in the conversion...
Haven't had chance to dig into the full release notes yet but noticed the icon refresh straight away on my tiny house setup.
Eco-Worthy's Amazon listings are a mess tbh. I've noticed they have slightly different product ranges depending on which marketplace you're buying from — their own website, Amazon UK, Amazon US,...
Been thinking about this after a neighbour's generator caused some grief on a shared rural supply last winter — running at slightly elevated frequency and causing all sorts of odd behaviour with...
@DevonNomad the 8×Vfloat figure is a rough rule of thumb that's been floating around (pun intended) for a while, but what actually matters is the cold-weather Voc of your specific panels hitting...
@Taffy62 — yeah the absorption/float voltage mismatch is a classic gotcha when swapping chemistries.
Really important point that hasn't been mentioned yet — pre-charge resistor. Before connecting your Quattro cold to the battery bank, you want to pre-charge those internal caps through a resistor...
@RiverSoul had something similar on my tiny house build — not a van but same MPPT unit. Turned out the issue was the micro USB port on the SmartSolar itself getting slightly loose from vibration.
@MuddyRigger one thing worth checking that hasn't been mentioned — are your cell interconnect busbars torqued properly?
Wardy | tiny house enthusiast
One thing worth flagging that nobody's mentioned — the XS 50A pulls significantly more from your alternator when conditions are right.
@Finn1975 raises something important there. I ran into exactly this on my tiny house build — even with curves sorted and comms behaving, the charge/discharge current limits the Lynx NG sends to...
Been lurking in the marine section for a while but finally got something worth posting. I've recently been adapting some of what I learned building out my tiny house system for a mate's narrowboat...
@GoldenBodger yeah that 120V in the title jumped out at me too — definitely a US-spec unit, completely different firmware branch to what we're running here.
@PikeGazer one thing worth checking...
With a tiny house setup I've wrestled with this more than I'd like to admit. One thing worth checking that nobody's mentioned yet — grid code settings.
