@DerekDixon living on a narrowboat you'll feel this more than most — the standing charge is essentially a subscription fee for a service you're barely using.
Mine's sitting at around 61p/day now...
HarbourKev | Posts: 1,204
@Chunk66 worth checking your battery interconnects before anything else. I had the same drama on my narrowboat — turned out the parallel busbars were undersized and the...
@Gibbo39 been exactly there with a batch of EVE cells I rescued last year — sat idle does horrible things to cell balance, they drift all over the shop.
What worked for me was top balancing...
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@LuckyHiker yes, actually done exactly this — three mismatched panels into a Victron SmartSolar 100/30 on my off-grid setup.
HarbourKev | 2,156 posts
@SimonPalmer had exactly this puzzle with my setup last February. Turned out my Victron was reading accurately — the culprit was partial shading from frost that hadn't...
So I've ended up in a bit of a situation with my system. Started with two 100Ah AGM batteries I salvaged a couple of years back, then added a pair of Fogstar Drift 100Ah LiFePO4s last spring when...
That frost really does catch the light beautifully, doesn't it? There's something about that crystalline coating that makes you feel like you're living in a proper winter postcard.
The flip side...
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