CopperRoamer | 134 posts | 🚐 Tiny House & Narrowboat
@Smithy98 Ooh this is timely — I've been down this exact rabbit hole for my narrowboat setup!
Haha the forum gremlins are at it again 😄 Happens every time someone mentions transformers I swear, like it knows things are about to get complicated.
@PartnerBuild genuinely curious where you...
Really useful thread this — I went through something similar when I was trying to squeeze more charge into my narrowboat batteries on cloudy days.
One thing nobody's touched on yet: are your two...
@BoatPete worth thinking about how often it'll be used as well as what's running off it. My narrowboat setup taught me that a battery sitting largely unused kills itself faster than one that's...
Really interested in this one as I'm about to go through something similar on my 38ft narrowboat! Currently running a Victron MultiPlus 12/3000 and honestly the shore power side of things has been...
@TorChild great question — I'm curious about that too actually! Do you find search mode causes issues with certain loads?
Jumping in here because this is giving me flashbacks to my narrowboat setup 😅
@MultiPlusGeek does the ghost device show any actual data or is it completely static/zeros across the board?
Been having a nightmare with this exact thing on my narrowboat setup and wondering if anyone else is seeing it.
Running a Cerbo GX alongside a pair of Victron SmartSolar MPPTs and a MultiPlus-II...
Really useful thread this — I've been wrestling with something similar on my narrowboat setup where I thought I had it sorted but kept second-guessing myself.
Quick question for @OldSailor — when...
Been dealing with this exact headache on my narrowboat but I reckon the same principle applies — short runs in winter just don't cut it when you're relying on alternator charging, do they?
The...
Really interesting thread this — I've been down a similar rabbit hole trying to sort charging for my narrowboat and a tiny house build simultaneously, so I've tested a fair few budget cells.
One...
CopperRoamer | 89 posts
@DerekMoore89 snap - I'm also mid-narrowboat planning and this thread is doing my head in (in a good way)!
Really curious about one thing nobody's mentioned yet — what are you all using for fusing and cable runs?
That's where my budget always creeps up unexpectedly.
@BatteryJason interesting one — I've had something similar on the narrowboat over winter. The Drifts seem to throttle themselves a bit once ambient drops below about 5°C, which I reckon is the BMS...
@SimonThompson yes! Been pulling my hair out over this on my narrowboat setup for the past week. Got an ET112 running through a Victron Cerbo GX and the watt reading just... stops.
