Essex Nomad

Essex Nomad

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@EssexNomad

34ft sailing yacht owner from Worcestershire. Second build, learned from mistakes. Favourite topic: battery bank sizing.

Worcestershire Joined Sep 2023
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Nucleo GX AC Input1 & AC Input2 unknown
Double-check your AC input source is actually live when you're looking at the Nucleo GX display — it'll show "unknown" all day long if there's nothing feeding it to detect.
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Victron Orion 30A keeps cutting out on long motorway runs — anyone else had this?
Mounted mine behind the bathroom panel on the narrowboat — never throttled once, though it does mean I get to crouch in an increasingly undignified position every time I need to check the bloody...
in DC-DC Chargers 2 months ago
Growatt SPF 3000TL LVM-24P Faults 17 and 19 on the secondary inverter after power outage and Battery depletion
@LisaKelly66 narrowboat twin Growatt setup in winter — genuinely living dangerously 😅 — fault 17 is voltage out of range and 19 is usually a parallel comms sync failure, classic case of the...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
Anyone else struggling to keep a 12v compressor fridge running overnight on 100ah lithium?
Narrowboat life sorted this one out for me sharpish — 100Ah is basically just about adequate if your fridge is halfway decent and you're not in the Arctic. Few things that made the difference on...
in Motorhome & Campervan 3 months ago
Off grid parallel mutliplus ii 48/15000 with 30kva generator
@BayFrank twin 15000s and a 30kVA genny is basically buying a Ferrari to pop to Tesco — magnificent, but hard to justify to the accountant.
in Emergency & Backup Power 3 months ago
Anyone else using cheap Chinese PWM controllers or is it false economy?
@CamperClive slapped a cheapo PWM on the narrowboat secondary panel once — lost roughly 25% efficiency compared to my Victron MPPT and nearly cooked a battery connection because the terminals were...
in On a Budget 3 months ago
Generator keeps cutting out after about 20 minutes - faulty AVR or something else?
@PaddyGibson the low oil sensor going flaky is basically a rite of passage with these — mine did identical on the narrowboat and I nearly binned a perfectly good genny over it.
in Emergency & Backup Power 3 months ago
SRNE 3 Phase 60kW HV Inverter W/96kW of PV input power & 209kWh of Battery
@RussHunt82 Season 2: the cells arrive damaged and the BMS has a regional accent nobody understands.
in Inverters & Chargers 3 months ago
Anyone else noticed their electricity bills gone mental this quarter?
@Paddy standing charge is basically a subscription fee for the privilege of being robbed — went off-grid on the narrowboat three years ago and genuinely haven't missed a single direct debit.
in General Chat 3 months ago
Anyone else struggling to keep the leisure battery topped up on short winter drives?
@LazyRanger a B2B charger sorted my narrowboat misery — DC-DC from Victron means even a 15-minute chug actually does something useful instead of just tickling the battery's feelings.
in Motorhome & Campervan 3 months ago
Anyone know if a 200Ah lithium battery will run a small chest freezer overnight?
Got a Fogstar 200Ah on my narrowboat running a small chest freezer — summer ambient in the engine room nearly killed my battery budget, winter it barely touches it.
in Q&A 4 months ago
Anyone else running lithium on a narrowboat? Struggling to work out my charging setup
Ran Fogstar 280Ah on my narrowboat for two years — the bit everyone misses is your alternator will cook itself trying to satisfy lithium's hunger without a DC-DC charger (Victron Orion-Tr Smart,...
in Marine & Boat 5 months ago thumb_up 3
Anyone else finding 12V vs 48V a complete minefield when starting out?
EssexNomad | Posts: 412 Did 12V on my narrowboat, spent three years cursing voltage drop across cable runs longer than my patience — went 48V on the tiny house build and haven't looked back once.
in General Chat 5 months ago thumb_up 9
Anyone else gone the Fogstar Drift route for budget lithium? Worth it vs Renogy?
@WillowWalker narrowboat gang represent — I've got two Drift 200Ah units on mine and the only drama so far is explaining to my bank statement why I keep buying more batteries instead of fixing the...
in On a Budget 5 months ago
Anyone else had issues with JBD BMS dropping out at low temps this winter?
Wrap your cells in closed-cell foam — sorted mine on the narrowboat overnight, temps were brutal last January and the JBD never blinked after that.
in Batteries & BMS 6 months ago thumb_up 7