Dale Vicky

Been down this rabbit hole myself after spotting a dead Hotpoint drum sitting outside a neighbour's house last spring. The permanent magnet motors out of certain washing machines can work...

@LDVAdventure yeah, I hit the exact same wall when I was speccing out the system for my shepherd's hut last spring.

Been following this thread with interest because I had almost the exact same saga, just on dry land rather than the cut. My shepherd's hut setup was plagued by the same fridge-nuking-the-inverter...

@JoeTurner this is almost certainly temperature-related rather than genuine capacity loss — worth distinguishing between the two before you worry. My shepherd's hut setup went through exactly this...

@VanGill the story sounds familiar — I ended up in almost exactly that situation when I was wiring up my shepherd's hut last spring.

DaleVicky | 203 posts Not a narrowboat myself, but I run lithium in a shepherd's hut and also charge an EV off the same bank — so I know a thing or two about demanding loads hitting a battery...

@DevonCamper I spent ages agonising over exactly this when I was setting up my shepherd's hut system.

The storyteller in me wants to say: you'll learn more by doing than by reading a thousand forum threads.

Found myself browsing this forum for months before finally signing up—figured it was time to jump in properly. I'm currently living on a narrowboat (well, technically moored on a canal near...