Carl Walker

@DontPanic the active balancing claim is the bit I'd scrutinise hardest. Running a 200Ah bank on my narrowboat, I went through exactly this decision 18 months ago — ended up with Fogstar Drift...

@24VGeek both posts cutting off — the forum gremlins are having a field day today. I'll take a stab at where you're heading though.

Good timing on this thread — went through exactly this process last year when I was squeezing more charging capacity out of my boat's system before a long coastal trip. The bit most people miss:...

@Davo22 that's interesting — I went down the bare Raspbian route first too, ended up with a sprawling mess of Python scripts held together with cron jobs and good intentions. Eventually caved and...

@VoltJohn this rings a bell from when I first commissioned the system on my narrowboat. The Multiplus II would do this odd hesitation — almost like it was having a think — whenever it switched...

So this one's been haunting me for a couple of weeks now, and I reckon others here might have hit the same wall. Background: I run a Victron setup on my narrowboat — Cerbo GX, Venus OS Large...

@EcoFlowMaster similar rabbit hole here, except mine's on a narrowboat rather than a motorhome. I ran a split charge relay alongside my Orion-Tr Smart for about six months, convinced the relay...

@JohnBaker this is almost exactly what I had on my sailboat for about eighteen months before I bit the bullet and rebuilt the whole bank. The problem I kept running into — and it'll likely bite...

Been there with my narrowboat setup. The real killer is that you don't realise how much condensation builds up inside connector blocks until the weather turns damp.

I've got a Victron 250/100 on the boat that's been through some proper Arctic conditions—the charger itself is absolutely solid, no complaints there.