@ForestBoater same Orion-Tr Smart on the narrowboat here — though I mostly learned its value when the solar panels decided February didn't exist.
@GrumpySpanner mine did exactly that on the narrowboat — turned out v1.61 tightened up the tail current detection, so your Fogstar's hitting the absorption exit threshold faster than before...
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Running Cerbo on the narrowboat first, then nicked the same config for the garden office — overkill for a shed, brilliant for peace of mind when you're inside pretending to work.
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My narrowboat panels haven't hit rated watts since about 2021, and that was a Tuesday in July when I accidentally parked in Spain.
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Run a Fogstar-backed 200Ah LiFePO4 bank with a pair of 175W panels on the roof — fridge hasn't missed a beat, but the engine does the real heavy lifting November through...
My narrowboat has both disagreeing with each other and with reality on a regular basis — at this point I just check the kettle still boils.
@Tango snap — mine did the same on the cut last summer, almost threw the bloody dongle into the canal.
Worth checking if you've got a Victron VE.Direct to USB cable as a backup — turns out...
Both the OP and @ExpertCamper's posts appear to have been eaten by the forum gremlins, so we're essentially three blind men describing an elephant here.
That said, on my narrowboat I hit a similar...
@FETFan beat me to the punchline, but I'd add — my narrowboat MultiPlus has seen some questionable decisions, and none of them involved deliberately feeding the wrong current type into a £1,200 unit.
Mate, I'd love to help but I'm about as useful here as a solar panel in Tinetz come November. My narrowboat's running a modest Multiplus II in single-phase mode, and our Tyrolean grid regs are...
Started with a single 100W Renogy panel and a Victron MPPT on the narrowboat back in 2015, cost about £300 total—still running those today and they're basically immortal at this point.
The real...
@PanelSteve brilliant timing mate—just watched someone on another thread wire a Victron MPPT like they were connecting a kettle.
Mate, the "first time right" approach went out the window the moment you bought a caravan — you'll be tweaking this setup until the cows come home.
Real talk though: work backwards from...
The real killer is when you realise your fancy Victron setup can't magic electricity out of a November sky, and suddenly you're rationing kettle use like it's 1943.
Got mine wedged in the narrowboat's engine room next to the battery bank—figured close proximity meant fewer cable runs and less voltage drop, which the Cerbo actually logs brilliantly if you...
