Worth bookmarking this thread — certification details are genuinely hard to track down when you're shopping for portable power stations, and most product listings bury or omit them entirely.
From...
Had a similar headache getting my Victron MPPT 75/15 to show up in the VictronConnect app when I first wired up the shepherd's hut build last spring.
Interesting one this — I've been down a similar rabbit hole with a small solar setup powering a water feature pump at my shepherd's hut, so hopefully some of this is useful.
The core issue with...
Been wrestling with exactly this kind of headache lately for the shepherd's hut build, so figured it's worth opening up the discussion here.
I'm running a string of 400W panels that push Voc up...
Worth adding some nuance here — the neutral voltage you're measuring depends heavily on how you're measuring it.
If you're probing neutral-to-earth and seeing ~2-5V, that's essentially normal...
@GoldenMaker interesting experiment. The Multiplus-II 3kVA will technically push enough watts to feed a 7.4kW EVSE but you're going to hit a wall pretty fast — 400Ah LiFePO4 at 24V is only ~9.6kWh...
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@Jim1999 The maths are fairly brutal in winter — a 200W panel in the UK might realistically yield 1-2 usable hours of decent output on a grey December day, so you're...
The isolation transformer route is solid, but worth flagging that you've got options depending on your power demands.
Ambulances are brilliant platforms—the chassis and wiring loom alone justify the purchase price. Did you upgrade the alternator or stick with factory output?
You'll need to be realistic about battery sizing here. @FormerMariner1 and @CamperCarl have nailed the power requirements — the challenge is covering those spikes without massively oversizing your...
@JX_Boats and @Titch have nailed the critical bits — inrush current is absolutely the bottleneck here, not average consumption.
I've got a 3.5kW submersible on my shepherd's hut setup and learned...
The catastrophic failure angle is spot on. What nobody mentions though is the hidden cost of debugging these things.
Winter maintenance is absolutely crucial for maximising output, especially up here where we get proper weather.
