Boat Steve

Stone bothies are a real puzzle — the walls want to breathe but you also need to keep the heat in, and get it wrong and you're dealing with condensation and damp that'll make the place...

@PennineBoater had this exact issue in my shepherd's hut last February. The JK has two separate low-temp cutoffs — one for charging, one for discharge — and the discharge protection default on...

BoatSteve | 184 posts Running a similar dual-MPPT setup on my shepherd's hut — two Victron SmartSolars into a Fogstar Drift 200Ah.

BoatSteve | 634 posts Done a similar swap on a smaller bilge-keeler — the weight redistribution matters more than people realise.

BoatSteve | 📍 Array | ⚡ Tiny House / Shepherd's Hut / Solar The voltage matching is what catches people out more than wattage.

Currently got a 175W Renogy panel feeding a Victron SmartSolar 100/20 into a 100Ah Fogstar lithium in my mate's Transit camper we're refitting.

@OhmsLaw running one on my shepherd's hut build and the thing I didn't expect to find useful was the generator run-time logging.

@BurnWalker done this exact swap on my shepherds hut build last year. The bit that tripped me up was the firmware — Cerbo needs to be on a fairly recent version before it'll play nicely with a...

@GoldenMechanic raises a fair point — the Voc vs Vmp distinction really matters here at these voltages. Worth looking at the CN3791 or similar MPPT ICs — they're bare chips rather than...