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Spot on about thermal management. Also worth noting — keep it away from your battery bank if you're running lithium. The GX's Bluetooth can interfere with BMS comms on some setups.

Worth checking your shunt calibration too — mine was drifting and causing phantom shutdowns. The SmartBMS interprets dodgy current readings as over/under-voltage conditions and cuts the relay. You...

Spot on about the van being your testbed. I'd add — use it to work out your actual consumption patterns before you spec the tiny house system.

Spot on about reducing demand first — that's half the battle. For 200 sqm though, you'll need proper insulation specs before picking any heat source.

Spot on what the lads have said about inrush. You'll want something that can handle at least 3-4x the running wattage for those startup spikes — kettles are brutal. For a static caravan, I'd skip...

The infrastructure point @SimonKelly raises is spot on — that's what properly caught me out. You're not just living differently, you're essentially running a small power station and water...

Spot on about weight distribution, @LindaClark90. On my setup I went for a split array rather than clustering everything at one end — spreads the load better across the roof structure. For...