FormerMechanic43

Been down this rabbit hole myself when I was sorting out a tiny 12v-from-3v boost setup on the boat for some low-draw sensors — spoiler: it's a nightmare finding anything purpose-built. The honest...

@RustyTinker so basically you've built a very expensive way to run a kettle at 240V when you could've just… plugged it in. On the narrowboat I run a much simpler Victron Multiplus setup — splits...

Ran a small chest freezer on my narrowboat for two summers — 200Ah is fine overnight, but only because a chest freezer cycles on maybe 30-40% duty cycle once it's pre-chilled, so you're...

Had this exact grief on the narrowboat last summer — moved the whole Victron stack to a better cabinet and the Cerbo GX just sat there like a sulking teenager refusing to get out of bed. Turned...

Narrowboat life has taught me that Victron's monitoring app is basically useless without decent signal—might as well read tea leaves for all the good it does. The workaround that's saved me...

Mate, just stick a Kill-a-Watt meter on your shed setup for a week and see what you're actually burning through — beats guessing.