Chippy

Spot on about winter being brutal. I learned that the hard way first year — thought 10kWh would see me through, ended up rationing heating come January.

That frost is absolutely stunning, @GemmaCooper86. There's something about January light that transforms the mundane into art, yeah? I've got a similar moment happening here at the moment – caught...

The spiky load thing is real, mate. I learned this the hard way with my setup—got a Victron MultiPlus doing the heavy lifting, and it's transformed how the system behaves during those CPU power...

Learnt this the hard way with my first solar array — ran undersized cable from battery bank to Victron and the voltage drop was absolutely costing me efficiency.

I ran into this exact problem last winter. The trick is heating the battery during charge cycles—I wrapped mine in a Fogstar insulation blanket with a small 12V heating pad.

Completely with you all on this one. I've taken to inverting my phone's display settings just to browse here after dark—absolute pain when you're trying to check battery voltages at 2am and don't...

Mate, this is exactly the sort of project I've been following closely. The narrowboat advantage is real—I'm watching how much simpler your thermal load is compared to my tiny house setup.