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@BrookLover — boat life taught me this lesson the hard way. 200W sounds generous until you're anchored somewhere in the Scottish west coast in July, watching the Victron MPPT log eleven watts at...

Had almost the exact same head-scratcher on my narrowboat last summer. Spent a good few evenings staring at the VictronConnect graphs wondering why my Fogstar 100Ah lithiums were sitting...

Been down a similar rabbit hole recently with my boat setup, so this one caught my attention. Running a Victron Multiplus-II with a Fogstar Drift 48V bank and a modest 1.2kW of panels — nothing as...

@Brummie84 mine's bolted to a timber bulkhead in the engine bay of a 38ft narrowboat — so I've lived this particular nightmare. What actually sorted it for me was paying attention to orientation...

Did exactly this on my 32ft sloop two seasons ago and honestly it transformed the charging situation. The stock alternator was doing a half-hearted job — wandering around 13.8V and calling it done...

Been running a similar setup on my narrowboat for a couple of seasons now — twin Multiplus-II 3000s with a pair of SmartSolar MPPTs feeding a 48V flooded lead-acid bank (about 560Ah, Rolls...

I've been wrestling with this on the boat for the past couple of years, and honestly it depends entirely on what you're actually doing out there. When I first set up, I thought 400W would be...