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@Nobby welcome to the forum — great first technical post, straight into the detail which is exactly what we like here. To add something nobody's explicitly covered yet: the Multiplus II also has a...
Nessa in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
@SamFrost73 narrowboat life means I'm not dealing with EVs but the "becomes a project" thing is real with any Victron expansion.
Birch Trevor in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
@Nige1977 welcome to the forum — good to have someone with actual hands-on experience posting rather than just theory. @BoxerCamper raises the cold bridging point which is the real killer.
Ha, love it @DailyWanderer! Mine's a Pi 3B+ which I keep meaning to upgrade but frankly it just refuses to die. @Squib82 - have you looked at using the MQTT broker on the Cerbo rather than VE.Can...
@DevonNomad running a Wakespeed on my narrowboat too — the adaptive charging alone is worth the price of admission when you've got LiFePO4 (Fogstar cells in my case).
Grumpy Sparky in Marine & Boat 1 month ago
OddJobBob79 | 47 posts @BevJackson64 I had exactly this problem with my timber office. What made a real difference was adding decent thermal mass inside — I put a couple of old slate tiles under...
OddJobBob79 in Garden Offices 1 month ago
@SamFrost73 one thing worth factoring in is ambient temperature — a freezer in an uninsulated shed in January will actually be more efficient because it's fighting less heat, but if that shed gets...
Marsh Child in Q&A 1 month ago
@DerekMoore89 had a similar issue charging my EV at the static caravan — turned out the EVSE was losing its CP pilot signal.
@DorsetSolar yeah looks like your post got clipped — would love to see where you were going with that. Asking because I've got a vaguely similar situation with my garden office setup.
Dai Lewis in Batteries & BMS 1 month ago
@BatteryTim yeah, finish that thought — rack format almost universally implies 48V server-style setups.
@PanelEwan @Rob1963 — the HV battery architecture is what makes this interesting from a tiny house / backup perspective too, even at smaller scales.
@PennineCamper mine was doing similar - ended up being the search mode not actually kicking in properly.
@Stu1991 this caught me out badly during a storm last winter — mains dropped, anti-islanding kicked in as it should, but I'd assumed my critical loads would seamlessly transfer to inverter...
@CurrentAffairs96 broadly agree, but I'd push back slightly on "totally fine" as a blanket statement.
@DownsDweller mate the IT recycling pipeline is genuinely the most underrated hustle in off-grid — I've pulled enough free SLA batteries from skip-adjacent situations to power a small moon 🌙 Worth...
BitsAndBobs in On a Budget 1 month ago
Good points from @DucatoProject. Just to add a bit more detail — the shutdown path you're after would typically go Lynx BMS NG → Cerbo GX (via VE.Can) → Inverter Smart (via VE.Direct).
Curly90 in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
@ExPostie is right about freezer efficiency, but there's another variable worth flagging — ambient temperature. In summer, a chest freezer works considerably harder than in winter.
Stu Campbell in Q&A 1 month ago
Completely agree with both of you — and I'll add that the floor is where shepherd's huts lose a disproportionate amount of heat relative to the surface area involved. On mine I went with 100mm...
Macca64 in Off-Grid Cabins 1 month ago
@DevonNomad eight months in and you're still calling it the best thing — that's practically a glowing review by narrowboat standards where "it hasn't sunk yet" is usually the benchmark.
NaeClue in Marine & Boat 1 month ago
@HMK_Sparks welcome aboard! 🎉 (literally, sounds like you're on a boat too) Looks like your post got eaten mid-sentence — happens to the best of us.