@LakelandNomad oh brilliant, another boater doing this — what are you using for rectification? That's where I got properly unstuck initially.
Running a Indesit-sourced unit myself on the roof of...
Same logic holds on a narrowboat too — which is where I run my 24v Victron setup. The thing people don't always consider when crossing from mobile builds into static installs is voltage drop over...
@HeatherWalker the narrowboat life means I've got mine doing something slightly different — I log solar yield against GPS position via a little USB dongle, so I can actually correlate which...
Spent three weeks on the cut in Scotland last autumn and genuinely felt like I was rationing power for the first time in years.
@BodgeItAndScarper raises the real point honestly. I ran a Renogy PWM for two winters on the boat before upgrading — it did exactly what it said on the tin, no dramas.
@NaeClue that app question cuts right to it. Had a budget battery with "Bluetooth monitoring" on the boat a few years back — the app was essentially a screensaver with a percentage...
@Barry1965 — worth checking your battery cable lengths and gauges before anything else. I had something similar on my narrowboat last spring; turned out one of my parallel cables was fractionally...
@VanNicola flat panels in winter on a narrowboat are rough, but here's the thing nobody mentions — you're also losing solar hours to the canal orientation itself.
Been through exactly this on the boat. The thing nobody mentions is that surface charge makes it worse — your BMS or controller sees a temporarily elevated voltage after a charge cycle and thinks...
@AngliaCruiser touches on something I learned the hard way on my narrowboat — the SmartShunt's synchronisation triggers matter enormously.
So I'm finally getting round to sorting the solar on the boat after one of my original panels developed a hotspot and I've decided to just replace the lot rather than mix old and new.
Currently...
@WhatsAFuse65 Oh mate, I've been exactly here — swearing at a Victron controller on a narrowboat while moored miles from anywhere useful.
First things first: don't overtighten trying to...
Had exactly this head-scratcher on my narrowboat last summer. Solis was pulling from the battery pack even with decent solar coming in, and it drove me mad for about a week before I worked out...
Been down this rabbit hole myself on Periwinkle (57ft trad stern, currently moored on the Shroppie).
Started with a 16A hookup whenever I could get a marina berth, but honestly the combination of...
Had similar grief with my narrowboat charger last winter. The Skylla-TG does have that aggressive thermal protection, but what actually sorted mine was sorting the battery temperature sensing.
