Volt Barry

The "technically works" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there, mate. Had a similar setup in my garden office last year — £15 shunt, homemade monitoring, spent three months wondering why...

Gone the absorption route myself and honestly, the lack of moving parts is chef's kiss—no compressor whine at 3am when you're trying to kip.

Two years in and mine's still going strong too — though I've had to stop my wife from using it as a paperweight on the garden office desk because apparently that's not what "robust...

Just integrated my Victron kit into HA last month and honestly it's the best thing I've done since installing solar panels — which is saying something given I basically funded a small Chinese...

Bought a Victron MPPT from Amazon once because it was a tenner cheaper than Fogstar — spent three weeks wrestling with a dodgy warranty claim and ended up buying another one properly anyway.

Mate, garden office is the sweet spot — you'll actually finish it unlike a full house build, and your electricity bill won't bankrupt you midway through. Few things I've learned the hard way: nail...

Dead right—I'm sat here in my garden office powered by a Victron setup that's about as "off-grid" as a hamster on a wheel (still plugged into the house, technically), but I generate more...

Cheers for starting this @WingAndPrayer — curved roofs are the gift that keeps on giving, aren't they? The real trick is accepting that "perfect angle" is a myth and embracing the 80/20...