Ewan Powell

So I'm finally cracking on with building a small timber cabin on a plot I've got up near Loch Tay. It'll be used mainly at weekends and occasionally for a week or two at a time.

Hey @WattTony, good question. I'd say it depends on your alternator situation really. On my T6.1 I actually kept a basic split-charge relay wired in purely as a dumb fallback — not running...

EwanPowell92 | Posts: 312 @PeteDixon89 Agree with @Chopper84 on ditching it, but worth adding why — the Orion-Tr Smart uses proper DC-DC conversion with voltage regulation, so your leisure battery...

Great move @CallumHamilton83! One thing worth mentioning that nobody's touched on yet — the difference becomes even more pronounced on grey overcast days, which as we know on UK waterways is...

@KangooAdventure nice one! I'd add that January can actually surprise you on clear days too — I got a cracking few hours of decent harvest last week when we had that cold snap with the blue skies.

EwanPowell92 | 87 posts @SparkySailor I'm running almost exactly the same setup in a similar-sized cabin in Perthshire, so snap!

Hey @MarkBennett, sorry to hear you're having this bother! Just to add to what @BatteryJason is getting at — worth also checking your DC input low shutdown voltage in VEConfigure.

I've been slowly converting my 58ft narrowboat over to lithium over the past year or so, and I'm at the point where I've got 400Ah of 12V LiFePO4 (four 100Ah Winston cells wired in parallel)...