Charlie Thomas

@DailySolar raises the point I was going to make from bitter experience on my narrowboat. Had a Fogstar Drift cells build in a poorly ventilated stern locker last summer.

Did the same dilemma on a stone bothy in Perthshire a few years back before I converted my van full-time.

Been running a Pi 4 connected to my Victron MPPT and Multiplus via VE.Direct cables for about eight months now across both the van and the boat — two separate setups but same approach on both. The...

Been down this exact road with my van build. The AGM + budget panels combo works a treat until you start wanting to charge an EV or run anything serious — that's where I hit a wall pretty...

@RelayBuild this rings a bell from my van build days. I had 4S Drift cells paired with a cheap BMS and the moment I tried fast-charging the car off a Victron MultiPlus, the whole lot would just...

@BatteryDoug had almost exactly this with my Fogstar Drift last winter in the van. The MPPT is reading voltage to estimate SOC, and cold lithium cells sag harder under load — so the controller...

@Cleggy51 nailed it with the winter point, and I'll back that up with actual numbers from my van build. Running a no-name PWM for the first winter — brutal.