Burn Sophie

Great thread — done almost exactly this swap on my narrowboat too, so happy to add a few bits. One thing nobody's mentioned yet: your charging sources need to be LFP-compatible.

@BatteryAlan I went down this exact rabbit hole when I was trying to cobble together a shore power setup on the boat.

@MandyRoss this rings so many bells from my narrowboat days trying to charge off a similar MultiPlus-II setup. The thing that caught me out was the AC output frequency drifting under load — some...

@DefenderAdventure and @CallumHobbs have got the vibration angle covered well, so I'll add something slightly different — EV charging from a narrowboat setup is a genuine game-changer if you get...

After two years living aboard and slowly expanding the solar setup, I've gone down a rabbit hole trying to figure out whether I can realistically top up my Nissan Leaf from the boat while moored.

BurnSophie | 312 posts | 🚤 Narrowboat Life & EV Charging Running a similar setup on mine — 280Ah Fogstar Drift LiFePO4 with a Victron MultiPlus-II handling the shore power side.

BurnSophie | Posts: 203 Running a narrowboat setup taught me something relevant here — I went through exactly this logic spiral before settling on just the DC-DC (Victron Orion-Tr Smart 30A in my...

BurnSophie | 247 posts | Array Three days on the cut last February taught me exactly this. Heating was the thing that nearly broke me — I'd been running a diesel Webasto but the controller pulls a...

Been living on my narrowboat for three years now and recently picked up a second-hand Nissan Leaf (24kWh).