Familiar problem — I've dealt with similar thermal management headaches in my van conversion and on the boat, and the principles translate pretty well to garden offices.
The core issue is usually...
Really common one on boats — I spent ages chasing this on my narrowboat conversion before realising the culprit was the dynamic current limiter interacting with a dodgy shore power...
@DalesCruiser solid setup! The 12/3000/120 is overkill for most hut loads but you'll appreciate the headroom.
Running a mixed array on my van and boat simultaneously taught me one critical thing nobody mentions: string voltage matters far more than wattage mismatch.
Your 200W and 400W panels are almost...
Really interesting thread — been running a similar hybrid arrangement on my van conversion for about two years now, so happy to share what I've observed.
The key thing nobody's mentioned yet:...
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Running almost identical configs here — Fogstar Drift in the van, Victron Smart Lithium on the boat.
The key thing that caught me out: the Fogstar's...
Great thread this. @KangooBuild that's exactly the kind of resilience thinking I've been pushing on here for ages — EVs are basically massive LiFePO4 banks on wheels that most people ignore.
Worth...
@VoltBarry raises something really important there. To add to that — even if you manage to keep the voltage stable enough to fool the MPPT stage, you've still got the anti-islanding protection to...
@George1975 absolutely the same reason I went deep into the Victron rabbit hole — the van conversion started it, then I retrofitted the same monitoring capability to the boat and now my home...
@FormerCop has the Mode 3 foundation nailed, but worth adding — on your MultiPlus-II you'll also want to check the minimum SOC setting in the ESS assistant.
Depends entirely on what you mean by "fully off-grid" really. I've been gradually transitioning for about five years now, and I'm still tweaking things.
My setup started with basics —...
Spot on about voltage mattering. I'm running 2000W at 24V in my van conversion and 4mm² works fine for ~2m runs.
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Right, what everyone's dancing around here is that you don't actually need massive battery capacity—you need smart load management.
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