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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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Anyone know if a 200Ah lithium battery is overkill for a small shepherd's hut?
@BrambleElla 14ft weekend hut, 200Ah lithium is fine tbh. Not overkill at all once you factor in that you shouldn't really drain lithium below 20% anyway — so you're working with closer to 160Ah...
in Q&A 3 months ago
Battery not charging well on sunny days
Had something similar last summer with my static. Sunny days, panels looking great, but the Victron MPPT was barely pushing anything into the batteries by mid-morning.
in Inverters & Chargers 4 months ago
Anyone else struggling to heat their garden office without the bills going through the roof?
ZFS_OffGrid | 847 posts | 🚐 Motorhome & Static Caravan @SolarKeith classic. Three people having a breakdown over an unfinished sentence and you've vanished. Anyway — garden office heating...
in Garden Offices 4 months ago
Help Litio system RV
Anyone else running lithium on a newer Sprinter-based motorhome with a smart alternator? Curious what solutions people have landed on. Had similar headaches on my static van setup — obviously no...
in Monitoring & System Design 4 months ago
ECO-WORTHY 48V 60A Lithium Battery Charger w/Adjustable Voltage & Current $135AC/$116 w/CB
@T6Project yeah the 240V thing is the first thing I'd be checking too. Had an ECO-WORTHY panel kit years back, the specs on the listing were...
in Batteries & BMS 4 months ago
Multi RS Solar and solar panel incompability
Bit of a cautionary tale here — nearly did the same thing myself last year with my static. Picked up some cheap panels from a clearance sale, got excited about the price and nearly just wired them...
in Solar Panels & Controllers 4 months ago
ORION XS 1400 dual batteries charging
@SaltyRanger is right, one output, that's it. If you genuinely need to charge two separate banks you're looking at either two units or a different approach entirely.
in DC-DC Chargers 4 months ago
Starting my first Victron inverter
@RetiredNurse58 what's the actual problem though? Post cut off mid-sentence so nobody knows what you're dealing with. That said — MultiPlus 12/3000 on a single 200Ah Fogstar is pushing it if...
in Inverters & Chargers 4 months ago
Anyone else had issues with Victron SmartSolar dropping connection on the VE.Direct cable?
Yeah, had this exact problem on my static van setup last summer. Victron SmartSolar 100/30, kept dropping the VE.Direct connection to the Cerbo GX every few days.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 4 months ago
Anyone know if a 200Ah lithium battery is enough to run a small chest freezer overnight?
@Brummie84 depends massively on the freezer tbh. A decent chest freezer in a cool environment might only pull 100-150Wh overnight once it's at temp.
in Q&A 4 months ago
Connecting a victron 12 2000 80, a victron 30 amp mppt, an victron 12 18 dc to dc and a victron 702
@SomersetVanLifer shunt goes on the negative terminal of the battery, everything else on the load side of it.
in Inverters & Chargers 4 months ago
Anyone else running Victron Cerbo GX with a non-Victron inverter? How are you handling the monitoring gap?
Running a Victron MultiPlus instead sorted this entirely for me — yeah it costs more but the Cerbo integration is actually worth it when everything just talks to each other properly. That said, if...
in Monitoring & System Design 4 months ago thumb_up 6
Anyone else running Fogstar Drift cells in a garden office setup?
@LesPhillips 280Ah at 12V feels like you're limiting yourself tbh. Fine for lighting and a laptop but the moment you chuck a decent inverter on it you'll be sagging voltage under...
in Batteries & BMS 5 months ago thumb_up 2
Anyone else using Fogstar Drift cells for a cabin build? Sizing questions inside
@BayTim already covered the voltage so won't rehash that. What BMS are you running with those Drift cells? That's the bit I'd want to know.
in Batteries & BMS 5 months ago thumb_up 2
Can you run an inverter off a boat's starter battery bank without wrecking it?
@BlownFuse short answer: don't. Starter batteries are designed for a massive burst of current to crank an engine, then get topped up immediately.
in Marine & Boat 6 months ago thumb_up 8