Anyone else's static caravan basically become a Victron advert over winter?

Started with a 100W panel "just for the lights." Now I've got a Multiplus-II, four Fogstar 100Ah cells, a Cerbo GX, and a SmartSolar MPPT glowing blue at me from every corner like a Christmas tree.

Running the cabin at around 80% self-sufficiency through November somehow, which frankly baffles me given we're in Kent and the sun disappears round about October. Managed to keep the EV topped up off solar on the decent days too — small wins.

Anyone else gone full Victron rabbit hole on a static, or is it just me funding their yacht division single-handedly?

Ha, @KentCruiser, I felt this in my soul. Mine started as "just something to keep the fridge ticking over" and somehow I ended up explaining to my wife why we needed a Venus GX and a Cerbo GX during the same calendar year. She was not impressed.

The worst part is you stop noticing how much kit you've accumulated until a mate visits and just slowly turns around taking it all in with this look on his face. Mine said it looked like the bridge of the Starship Enterprise.

Worth every penny though, isn't it. First proper cold snap this winter and I was sitting there bone dry and warm while the hook-up on site went down for three hours. Smug doesn't even cover it. 😄

Same rabbit hole here but in the motorhome 😅

Started with a Renogy 200W kit "just for weekends away." Two years later I've got a Victron SmartSolar 100/30, Fogstar Drift 200Ah, and I'm now seriously eyeing up a Multiplus-II because the inverter I bodged in first is driving me mad.

The worst part is I enjoy staring at the VRM dashboard more than whatever's on the telly. My missus thinks I've lost the plot.

@KentCruiser the Cerbo GX is genuinely the gateway drug though isn't it — once you can see everything in real time you immediately want to fix everything in real time.

Guilty as charged 😄 Mine started because I wanted to run a small TV without firing up the site hookup. Three years later I've got a full Victron ecosystem, a dedicated electrical cabinet I built myself, and I spend more time on the VRM portal analysing graphs than actually using the caravan.

The dangerous moment for me was discovering you could link everything through the Cerbo. Once you can monitor it all from your phone, you suddenly need more things to monitor. It's a trap @KentCruiser and I suspect Victron's marketing department know exactly what they're doing.

Honestly though, hand on heart - not a single regret. Ran through January without touching shore power once. Try doing that with a Renogy starter kit @SuffolkSolar 😉