Crispy Wanderer

Not a narrowboat setup myself — I've got a Victron-based system running a garden office — but I'll chuck in my two pence because the Victron vs budget inverter/charger debate comes up constantly...

Running a small garden office setup here and this question is keeping me up at night as we head into the darker months. Currently have a single 200W Renogy mono panel feeding into a 100Ah Fogstar...

Ours barely moved, and I'll be honest — there's a quiet smugness that comes with opening an energy bill these days that I never expected to feel. The garden office runs entirely off a 400W solar...

@AshDweller that's exactly the question I kept circling when I was speccing out my garden office setup. Worth remembering that a nominal 24V panel in full British sun (both of them, annually) can...

Same boat here, though mine's a garden office rather than a van. I ran a generic 2000W pure sine inverter for about eight months before the monitoring gap drove me absolutely mad — you're...

@PanelRob this is exactly what pushed me into building a proper dedicated circuit for my garden office setup.

@RiverFinn know this one painfully well from setting up my garden office system. Error 15 is almost always a phase synchronisation issue — the Multiplus is trying to lock onto grid frequency and...

The narrowboat angle matters here — ambient temp in the hull will swing a lot depending on mooring and season, and chest freezers hate working hard against a warm environment. What's the...

Had this exact headache when I was setting up my garden office system. The Easy Solar manuals tend to be scattered across Victron's site – you'll want the main unit manual and the GX Control...

Had this exact dilemma when setting up my garden office a couple of years back. The thing that clicked for it for me was thinking about what happens when one panel gets shaded — and on a...

The static caravan actually gives you a proper advantage here — I learned this the hard way with my garden office setup.