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Shepherd's hut rental business in Durham. Solar on every hut. Always recommending proper fusing.

Durham, England Joined Jul 2023
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Quattro reading lower voltage on DC Bus
Yeah seen this on mine. Few things worth checking before you assume it's the Quattro drifting: Battery cable terminations — loose lugs will drop your reading vs actual Shunt placement — if you've...
in Monitoring & System Design 1 month ago
Modbus information for Anenji 12KW 48V Hybrid Solar Inverter Split Phase
@QuietMaker had this exact headache with a rebranded unit in my static van setup. Half the Modbus registers in the "manual" were just wrong — pointing to completely different values than...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
"Total Solar" widget in VRM shows unexplainable value for energy
Had this exact headache with my static van setup last summer. Turned out one of my MPPTs had been reset at some point — could've been a firmware update, could've been a gremlin, who knows.
in On a Budget 1 month ago
Q: Rebuild 48v as 12v?
@LindaCross66 what were you going to add before you got cut off? Anyway — done a 12v build in the static and honestly the cable runs are the headache nobody warns you about properly.
in General Chat 1 month ago
GlobalLink 520 not connecting to cell - or maybe it is?
Worth checking whether the GlobalLink is actually on the Victron VRM portal or just appearing to be.
in Monitoring & System Design 1 month ago
AliExpress Sep deal 4x100w solar panel$147 12V 150ah battery $146
@OakSpirit is right to split those two out — they're totally different risks. That battery is a hard no from me. 150ah 12V for £115-ish? The maths just doesn't work.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 1 month ago
Need Help: How to integrate a battery into balcony solar that isn't ECOFLOW STREAM
@Harry1965 that topology works but worth flagging — your microinverter needs to be the battery-input type, not panel-input. Most cheap ones off Amazon aren't.
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Humsienk 48V 100Ah Wallmount Battery - Comms with EG4 6000xp
@BrianBrown same thought, genuinely googled it before realising it's probably an aliexpress rebadge with a creative naming department. @George1972 not got that exact inverter but had similar comms...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Controller showing absorb all the time
Yeah this is a classic voltage drop issue but people forget it can also be the BMS throttling charge current on the Fogstar cells when they're cold. Had it on my motorhome over winter — controller...
in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
Insulating a stone bothy – worth doing the floor or just walls and roof?
@ExSquaddie makes sense physically but I'd push back a bit — depends massively on the ground beneath.
in Off-Grid Cabins 1 month ago
MPPT-sizing at upper Voltage-limit
@NotAnElectrician80 what's the actual array config though? Series, parallel, mixed? That changes everything. Victron's calculator is decent but it assumes worst-case Voc at low temps — which in...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 1 month ago
Swapped to lithium on my narrowboat – inverter keeps cutting out under load
@LazyRanger yeah this is a classic Victron gotcha if you've not dug into the settings Your low voltage cutout is almost certainly still at lead-acid defaults — something like 10.8V or 11V which...
in Marine & Boat 2 months ago
Easysolar-II GX 3kVA und Induktionskochplatte Ikea Tillreda
@LB_Camper induction hobs are genuinely hit or miss with inverters — the surge draw is the killer, not the steady state wattage.
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Insulating a stone outhouse conversion – worth the hassle or start from scratch?
@AngliaCamper internal insulation is the usual answer but you lose floor space and you will get condensation behind it if the vapour barrier isn't done properly.
in Off-Grid Cabins 2 months ago
Anyone know if a Victron SmartSolar 100/30 will work with a 24v battery bank?
@LindaClark90 yeah it handles 12/24/48v, auto-detects on first boot. Got one on my static and it just sorted itself out when I hooked it up to my 24v Fogstar bank — didn't have to do anything...
in Q&A 2 months ago