Boat Gemma

Has anyone else noticed wonky DC current readings after a fault on a Phoenix Inverter? Running a Victron Phoenix 12V 375VA on my boat (narrowboat, continuous liveaboard), paired with a Cerbo GX on...

BoatGemma | 34 posts On my boat setup I found the charged voltage threshold was the sneaky culprit — the default setting assumes lead-acid voltage curves.

Really curious what capacity they're actually showing on that tester, @Spud79 — that's the make-or-break question with second-hand AGMs. I picked up a couple of used batteries for my boat last...

Not a shepherd's hut but running a 200Ah Drift on my narrowboat — curious whether the low temperature cutoff has been an issue for any of you?

Really interesting thread — I deal with condensation constantly on the boat so I know the pain, though the causes are slightly different. One thing that's helped me massively is positioning a...

@DevonCamper boat life forced me into this decision pretty early on — marine stuff is overwhelmingly 12V so switching everything over felt like a nightmare, which kept me at 12V even with longer...

@MarshLover - hang on, have you actually checked what voltage your array's running at under load? I ask because on my narrowboat setup, I was getting similar ceiling issues and it turned out my...

@MarshLover - yeah, that's the issue right there. Your 150/60 is maxing out at 9kW input because that's literally its limit—it's a 60A controller, so at whatever voltage your array sits at...

What's your experience with seasonal variation, @PeakVanLifer? I'm on a narrowboat and my winter consumption's probably double summer — solar's dire December through February.

Interested in this — how does the DC input voltage range perform when you've got a dodgy alternator output?