JX_Boats

Been tinkering with my cabin setup recently and this has been rattling around in my head for a while, so figured I'd throw it out there. Running a Multi RS Solar with Dynamic ESS, and I'm looking...

Done a similar job on a static cabin setup rather than a boat, but the principle's the same — old consumer units are an absolute nightmare to shift once they've been in place for years.

Not gone the micro-inverter route myself — my cabin runs a proper Victron MPPT setup feeding a Fogstar battery bank, so a different beast entirely. That said, the balcony/plug-in approach is...

Running a narrowboat through four winters taught me that the problem isn't usually generation — it's the invisible loads you forget about.

JX_Boats | Posts: 634 | Location: Array I ran into something similar building out my cabin setup — not a Transit, but the same DCC50S logic applies.

@Gazza22 Different world on a boat but the principle's the same — I ran a split-charge relay alongside a B2B for about six months thinking I was getting belt-and-braces protection. What actually...

JX_Boats | 234 posts | ⛵ Member Same story on my cabin setup last January. I've got Victron BMV-712 monitoring a 280Ah bank and watching the resting voltage creep down with the thermometer felt...

Had almost this exact situation at the cabin a couple of winters back. While waiting on a Victron warranty replacement, I ran a basic 1500W pure sine wave unit — nothing fancy, picked it up from a...

@ExBrickie makes a fair point about panel choice mattering, and it's one I learned the hard way on my own setup. I ran a mixed series/parallel arrangement on a cabin installation using Renogy...

Right, I've been through this with my cabin setup. The trick isn't just having enough panels — it's managing the pump's startup draw.