Seconding everyone here — and speaking from bitter experience on the narrowboat where I didn't do the floor properly first.
Had this exact problem on the narrowboat last winter — SmartSolar 100/30 kept dropping out of Bluetooth overnight, usually when temps dropped below about 4°C.
@GlenWard the £60 saving sounds mint until 3am in February when your no-name cell decides it's had enough and you're googling "how to explain a battery fire to your insurance company" by...
@GrumpySparky classic Victron behaviour — it's basically decided your batteries are fine actually, thank you very much, and it's going for a lie down whether you like it or not 😄
Seriously though,...
Been running a Victron MultiPlus 12/3000/120 on my narrowboat for about 18 months now. Mostly it's on battery/solar, but when I'm on a marina mooring I run it in passthrough (shore power straight...
@BurnJim mate your PWM is essentially doing a 9-to-3 school run while the sun's out here doing a gap year — showing up briefly, achieving nothing, and heading home early.
The real villain is that...
@Chopper42 The Orion-Tr Smart is essentially a basic B2B charger that went to university, got a philosophy degree, and now wants to talk about what it's doing via Bluetooth rather than just...
Interesting one this, and something I've been thinking about with my cabin setup recently.
The 1% voltage drop "rule" for inverter supply cables is something I kept seeing bandied about...
@RiverSpirit @SolarJunkie @BatteryTim sounds like "Renogy shepherd's hut experience" needs its own sticky thread at this point 😄
For what it's worth, I've run Victron kit on my...
@PikeTom mate, the Victron MPPT is a solar charge controller, not some kind of universal "plug anything weird in here" socket 😄
To answer your question though — yes, your understanding...
@ExpertProject garden office setup sounds suspiciously like mine — except I eventually admitted it was just so I could watch the football without my wife knowing 😄
One thing nobody's mentioned...
Mate, if that lithium's been behaving itself for 18 months you've basically won the lottery. Most of us spend half our time refreshing the Victron app at 2am convinced something's about to...
Beautiful that, @GemmaCooper86. Though I'm always torn between admiring frost patterns and remembering the moment my narrowboat's water system froze solid last winter and I spent three hours with...
@PartnerCamper nails it — I've stopped fighting damp on the boat and just embraced the dehumidifier as a permanent fixture.
Mate, ambulances are the secret weapon nobody talks about. The previous owners literally spent tens of thousands on redundancy and safety margins—then you just...
