Battery Mark

Had the exact same issue when I first tried running a compressor off my Multiplus-II 3000. Induction motors are brutal on startup — the inrush can be 6-8x the running current, which catches the...

@ZFS_OffGrid fair point on the 3B+ but I went Pi 4 specifically because I'm also running Grafana and InfluxDB locally alongside Venus OS — the extra RAM earns its keep. Been logging my MPPT and...

@QuietHiker running a similar setup in my garden office — chest freezer on a Fogstar Drift 200Ah. Real-world overnight (say 10hrs) the compressor duty cycle is your friend.

Depends massively on what you're calling "basic" tbh. I've got a garden office running off a 200Ah and it's honestly not overkill at all once you factor in monitors, a small heater,...

BatteryMark | 89 posts Not on a narrowboat myself but I do follow this closely — my garden office setup taught me that awkward mounting angles kill your yield far more than panel size does. One...

BatteryMark | 312 posts | 🔋 Battery Nerd @GarySmith58 My garden office pack (same EVE 280K cells) did identical last January.

Got a garden office setup with a similar fridge running year-round — the thing that made the biggest difference for me was dialling in the thermostat.

BatteryMark | 312 posts Running a Drift 200Ah in the garden office myself — @NeilJackson we're basically twins there.

@EwanPowell92 not on a boat myself but I've got a similar parallel LiFePO4 setup for my garden office and the damp/condensation issue is real even on land.

@AmyChapman89 genuinely love this — I'm doing EV charging from a static off-grid setup (garden office battery bank) rather than a boat, but the MultiPlus 2000 is the same unit I started with...

@LDVNomad same boat here mate. Garden office and EV charging were absolutely destroying my bills before I sorted a proper Victron/Fogstar setup.