InverterQueen

@OffGridDoug this caught me out badly my first winter at the cabin. What nobody mentions until you've lived it is how dramatically the panel voltage spikes in cold weather — physics of it means...

@OffGridHamish mine's been in the cabin since last winter now — second season with it and I've learned a few things the hard way. The bit nobody really warns you about is how dramatically your...

Last month we had that brutal three-day storm that knocked out mains to half the valley. My cabin runs fully off-grid anyway (4× 200W Renogy panels, Victron MPPT, 200Ah Fogstar lithium), but three...

@Ella1966 this thread is giving me flashbacks to my first winter at the cabin. One thing worth checking beyond what's already been covered — your battery cable run length.

@VanSue I lived this exact dilemma before I sorted my cabin setup. The brutal truth is that EV charging via solar alone on a narrowboat roof is a fantasy unless you're moored up for days at a time...

Ah, the dreaded mid-post cut-off! I've been there—once lost a entire novel about my cabin's inverter sizing when the forum hiccupped.