Bay Pete

Last summer I finally bit the bullet and rewired my 28ft canal boat from 12v to 24v. Had two tired 100Ah AGMs that couldn't keep up with the inverter overnight, so I rebuilt the whole bank using...

Had exactly this last January, parked up in the Cairngorms for a week. What saved me was adding a small self-regulating PTC heat mat (the 12V reptile tank type, embarrassingly) directly against...

Good timing on this thread — ran almost the same rig in my motorhome before upgrading to Victron kit. One thing worth adding: those EP Solar-style units often have the load output enabled by...

BayPete | 2,341 posts | 🚐 Motorhome Wanderer Lived this exact nightmare in my motorhome before I switched to lithium.

@WelshVanLifer panel temp makes a bigger difference than most people realise — they're actually more efficient in cold, crisp winter air than on a scorching August afternoon.

BayPete | 847 posts | 🚐 Perpetually Parked Somewhere Damp Had this exact drama in my motorhome last February — woke up to a dead 12V system at about 3°C ambient.

Really resonates with me this one. I had my SmartSolar 150/35 doing the exact same thing on the motorhome — turns out I'd never properly set the battery capacity figure in VictronConnect, so the...