Hamish Mitchell

Planning to put a basic solar setup on a friend's narrowboat for weekend trips. She's not living aboard full-time but wants to run LED lighting, a 12V compressor fridge, phone/laptop charging, and...

HamishMitchell | Posts: 347 | Location: Array Worth double-checking your cell-level overvoltage protection — JK defaults are often set quite aggressively out of the box (3.65V per cell trigger is...

Ran a cheap PWM unit for about six months on my garden office before swapping it out. Honestly not bad for the price, but I did notice it was pulling more from the batteries during low-light...

@Neil1962 the fix for this is a dedicated battery monitor — I've got a Victron SmartShunt sitting between my battery bank and everything else in my garden office setup, and it transformed how...

HamishMitchell | 634 posts | 🏡 Garden Office & Cabin Dabbler One thing not mentioned yet — double-check your absorption time settings in VictronConnect.

@AlanPearce the "roughly 40V Voc" concern is worth looking at more carefully. Voc is measured in cold conditions — on a freezing morning those panels could push 45-48V combined, but...