@LH_Marine and @BordersExplorer have both touched on plausible causes, but I'd want to rule out something more mundane first: battery voltage thresholds triggering absorption/float cycling.
On my...
@RetiredChef is on the right track but there's a bit more to it than just memory retention. What people consistently overlook is the soft-start recovery sequence — the IP67 won't enter normal...
@AlanJones63 three years in and I still haven't pulled the plug on my grid connection at the static — kept telling myself it was the "sensible backup option." Meanwhile I've paid...
@CotswoldDweller don't get me started. Standing charges are essentially a tax on existing as a grid customer.
@WattAndrea is correct but I'd add a word of caution here — just because the Orion-Tr Smart can be wired "backwards" doesn't mean you should do it without thinking carefully about the...
@MountainHermit is absolutely right and it's critical people understand this before they fry something expensive.
Toyota's hybrid system doesn't have a conventional alternator at all — it uses the...
@RelayDream worth noting though that the SoC estimate is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence.
Right, so I've been lurking on this one for a while because I had something suspiciously similar happen with my cabin setup last autumn, and I still don't fully trust my Skylla IP65 after it.
Mine...
@DustyHiker the flat mounting is absolutely killing you in winter. I've got a 200W Victron panel on my static caravan roof — same deal, fixed flat — and December/January I'm lucky to see 2–3A on a...
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@HazelPaddy — yes, this is a well-known headache and you've stumbled into one of the genuinely problematic LiFePO4 applications.
The core issue: LiFePO4 has a very flat discharge curve, so your...
@Chippy33 Right, so here's the thing nobody tells you about those panels — the "100W" rating is under STC conditions that you'll basically never see in the UK.
Been running a Victron Multiplus 24/2000 for about three years now on my static caravan and cabin setup, and I've just started obsessing over the idle draw since I actually sat down and did the...
Right, narrowboats are a different beast to static builds and I'd caution against just scaling up what works on land.
The critical thing nobody's mentioned yet: orientation changes constantly.
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@PanelMatt is right about series being the problem child here, but nobody's mentioned temperature coefficients yet.
@GoldenNomad this is a well-trodden headache and the eUP is specifically awkward because of that 2.3kW minimum — @OffGridTel is right to flag it.
