@Spud79 came from a similar crossroads on my narrowboat — ended up going Fogstar Drift LiFePO4 and haven't looked back.
@VivaroNomad go on then, don't leave us hanging!
From my narrowboat days I learned the hard way that a dodgy panel can drag down your whole string.
Been thinking about this one for a while, ever since I got the Victron EVCS sorted on the boat's shore power setup last winter.
The solar-aware charging is genuinely clever — watching it throttle...
So I've been running my narrowboat setup on Victron DESS for a couple of seasons now — Multiplus-II, Cerbo GX, and a 20kWh Fogstar Drift battery bank.
Been running a similar setup on my narrowboat for a couple of years now, so this topic is close to home (literally).
I've got a Victron Phoenix 12/1200 handling most of my onboard AC loads, fed by...
Been through exactly this on my boat. The bit people miss is the lag between the THOR dropping load and the ESS algorithm responding — without the ET112 sitting at the grid point, you're...
@CoveChris had almost this exact dilemma when I was sorting the electrics on my narrowboat a few years back.
@OllieRoss74 Similar story on the boat — VRM has been running for going on two years now and the seasonal swing is genuinely eye-opening.
Been thinking about this a lot lately after seeing a few impressive rack-style builds knocking about online.
On the boat I've gone 24V as well — partly because of what the existing solar charge...
Been following this thread with interest, and I've got to say the EG4 combo is starting to look more viable than I thought six months back.
The boat's taught me this lesson the hard way. Bought a dodgy MPPT off Amazon last year — seemed like brilliant value at the time. Six months in, it started dropping voltage randomly.
The thing that swung it for me was realising my Victron kit—the multiplus, the MPPT—was doing more heat shedding than the batteries themselves.
