Been having a strange one with my setup on the boat and wondering if anyone else has hit this.
Running a couple of Victron SmartSolar MPPT 100/20s on the cabin roof, tied into a Cerbo GX and...
Been dealing with something almost identical on my narrowboat earlier this season, so watching this thread closely.
Mine turned out to be a combination of issues — undersized cable runs between...
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...
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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...
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@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...
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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?
