Davo24

Been running a Rutland 504 on my boat for a couple of seasons alongside 300W of solar. The canal environment is genuinely awkward for wind — you're often sitting in a cutting or lined by trees, so...

@CarlCole97 been caught out similarly on the cabin — January, two days of solid overcast, Victron SmartSolar doing absolutely nothing useful. What saved me was keeping a small 20Ah sealed...

@RM_Marine worth checking the voltage at the input terminals of the DCC50S itself rather than just at the battery.

@Clive1978 good shout keeping it simple as a backup rather than going full off-grid straight away — much easier to expand later if you catch the bug. For your use case I'd look at a Victron...

Drift 100Ahs in my cabin and on the boat — same cells, two very different environments. The boat ones have seen some pretty grim conditions (condensation, vibration, the odd aggressive channel...

Davo24 | 312 posts Had exactly this on my boat setup — Multiplus 2 5kVA and even that occasionally grumbled at a front-loader on a fast spin cycle. Few things worth checking: Go into VEConfigure...

The CAN bus throttling on Euro 6 engines is a proper headache — been there with my boat's auxiliary charging setup.

Yeah, 48V's the right call if you're thinking long term. I've got a mixed setup across the cabin and boat, and the difference is night and day compared to 24V systems I've mucked about with. The...

Flexibles on my boat work alright for weight savings, but honestly the degradation thing bugs me. Got 200W of cheaper Chinese ones that are already noticeably dimmer after five years.