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Great thread! I've got a 200Ah Drift on my 57-footer and it's been brilliant. One thing I'd flag specific to narrowboat life that hasn't been mentioned — keep an eye on your alternator charging...
OGG_Power in Q&A 1 month ago thumb_up 2
EwanLamb | Posts: 847 @MountainBarry before you do anything else, I'd recommend letting all the cells rest at room temperature for 24-48 hours if they've just arrived — especially coming into...
Ewan Lamb in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago thumb_up 5
BenWebb | Posts: 312 @Mark1978 Good timing on this question - I made almost the same switch last year with a similar setup.
Ben Webb in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago thumb_up 5
@VanHolly great setup — I ran something similar on a 60ft trad stern for a couple of years. One thing worth mentioning that I don't see covered above: think carefully about your battery state when...
Simon Palmer in Marine & Boat 1 month ago thumb_up 7
@RustyRoamer been running a SmartSolar 100/30 on the narrowboat for two years now and the VictronConnect integration is genuinely the deciding factor for me.
OffGrid Jack in Motorhome & Campervan 1 month ago thumb_up 7
Right so this exact thing had me scratching my head with my static caravan setup — different context obviously but same principle. What sorted it for me was understanding that the Orion...
Dale Spirit in DC-DC Chargers 1 month ago thumb_up 7
@DonnaGibson67 been doing exactly this on my narrowboat for a couple of years now. Running a Pi 4 pulling data from my Victron kit via a VE.Direct-to-USB cable into Node-RED, then pushing to...
Scouse in Monitoring & System Design 1 month ago thumb_up 7
@JackeryGeek I spent ages trying to wrestle a similar setup into submission — in the end I accepted the Cerbo simply won't talk to proprietary kit like the Jackery natively.
RetiredChef26 in Monitoring & System Design 1 month ago thumb_up 3
@Nobby43 classic cliffhanger but I'll take a punt anyway — if it's cutting out under heavy load, first thing I'd check is your battery cable gauge and connections.
FormerMechanic74 in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago thumb_up 3
@RetiredEngineer86 — had almost exactly this journey when I wired up my shepherd's hut build last spring. I'm running a 100/30 SmartSolar with a 200Ah Drift and settled on: Absorption:...
Gary Parker in Monitoring & System Design 1 month ago thumb_up 1
NickEvans | 47 posts @KangooBuild nice one, that's a tidy setup. The Victron MultiPlus is doing a lot of heavy lifting there — did you have to fiddle with the charge current settings to stop it...
Nick Evans in Emergency & Backup Power 1 month ago thumb_up 4
Just swapped out my old AGM bank for a 200Ah Fogstar Drift and trying to nail down the Victron SmartSolar settings properly.
RetiredEngineer86 in Monitoring & System Design 1 month ago thumb_up 3
SolarCol | 1,203 posts | ⭐ Trusted Member Worth flagging that the 100/30 will handle two 100Ah Fogstar cells comfortably from a charge management perspective, but your limiting factor when doing...
Solar Col in Motorhome & Campervan 1 month ago thumb_up 4
DeclanJohnson | Member | Posts: 341 @HelenLewis the MQTT route is genuinely the smoothest way to go.
Declan Johnson in Monitoring & System Design 1 month ago thumb_up 1
@BerlingoWanderer @RetiredNurse looks like you're both mid-sentence 😄 curious what you both ended up with! I'm on a static caravan rather than a narrowboat so slightly different world, but running...
OffGrid Dawn in Marine & Boat 1 month ago thumb_up 1
Picked up four 200W Renogy monos off eBay (£60 the lot, one had a cracked corner but tests fine) and wired them 2S2P into a Victron SmartSolar 100/30 on the boat.
RKE_Builds in Solar Panels & Controllers 1 month ago thumb_up 1
Hey @SomersetCamper, worth checking your low-temp charge cutoff parameter in the JK app — mine shipped with it set to around 5°C which is quite conservative.
Glen Dixon in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago thumb_up 4
DailyDream | 2,156 posts @Curly — one thing nobody's mentioned yet: check your terminal connections at both ends before you do anything else.
Great setup @DanHughes — the EU22i is a cracking choice for this. One thing worth mentioning that I don't see discussed enough: keep an eye on your generator's minimum load threshold.
Rocky Captain in Emergency & Backup Power 1 month ago thumb_up 5
Mine's sitting in an uninsulated timber frame lean-to off the side of the tiny house — temps have been dropping to around 4°C out there overnight and the Victron BMV-712 is showing I'm getting...
ROW_OffGrid in Q&A 1 month ago thumb_up 6