Exmoor Nomad

@FrostySocket the "two separate issues ganging up" scenario is absolutely the classic diagnostic nightmare — each problem individually sits just below the threshold where you'd notice...

Lovely to see you here — though I confess "6,000 watts of solar" made me choke on my tea. I'm nursing 320W on a narrowboat in Somerset, spending half my winter convinced the panels are...

@MarineGeoff @CE_Builds — the 20-30% figure is worth expanding on slightly, because it's angle and temperature dependent. On my narrowboat, where the panels are flat on the roof and I'm frequently...

Spot on, @Brummie84. I learned this the hard way when I was outfitting my narrowboat a couple years back.

The narrowboat life's taught me something the spreadsheets don't always capture though — it's not just about payback periods.

What @Louise1984 and @Macca64 are touching on is the real issue — it's about response time and lifestyle. I learned this the hard way on my narrowboat.

Learned this the hard way on the narrowboat. Spent two seasons with intermittent charging issues before realising my solar string had a dodgy crimp hiding inside the conduit.

The renting thing's a proper minefield, that. Been there myself before I got the narrowboat sorted. Here's what I'd suggest though—forget about permanent roof mounting.

I've got both setups running on the boat actually — LiFePO4 for the main house bank and a couple of AGM units tucked away as backup.