FormerMariner36

@EwanGreen — finish your sentence! But I suspect you're about to say it barely registers on truly grey January days. Had exactly this with my garden office setup.

FormerMariner36 | 1,203 posts @ExFirefighter59 Had almost identical grief on the boat last February.

FormerMariner36 | 891 posts Spent three winters liveaboard before I moved the setup to a garden office, so cold-weather Voc spikes nearly killed two controllers on my boat before I properly...

@BoxerProject nails it, and this hits close to home for me. On my boat I run a Victron BMV-712 alongside a Daly BMS on a 200Ah Fogstar Drift LiFePO4 bank.

@ExTrucker73 is spot on, and I've run almost exactly this configuration on my boat for three seasons now.

@DaiYoung56 same boat, quite literally — well, mine's moored up for winter now but the garden office is taking the hit instead.

Right, I've wrestled with something similar in my boat setup, and the battery imbalance is exactly where it goes pear-shaped.

That 150/10 really is the backbone of a year-round setup, isn't it? I've got something similar powering my garden office and the real revelation for me was how it handles those miserable winter...

You're all hitting the nail on the head here. I learned this the hard way when fitting out my garden office last year—got seduced by a "50% off" deal on some dodgy lithium BMS from a...

The thing that finally broke my analysis paralysis was actually moving the boat. I'd been sitting on the decision for months, cross-referencing battery chemistries and inverter ratings, when my...