Jason Phillips

JasonPhillips | 2,247 posts | ⚡ Victron Certified Installer, Recovering Perfectionist @BoxerWanderer The narrowboat mindset is a genuine liability when you step onto terra firma, I won't lie.

JasonPhillips | Posts: 234 @TrevorHughes I feel this! I've got a similar split-brain situation with a motorhome and a woodland cabin, so not identical but the mental overhead of switching between...

@Spider85 Just to build on what @PaulaFisher91 was getting at — another angle worth considering is failover.

JasonPhillips | 847 posts @Brummie77 The flat voltage curve on LiFePO4 is the main culprit here — SOC estimation via coulomb counting lives or dies by your calibration points.

JasonPhillips | Posts: 312 Good shout from @DefenderDream on absorption voltage. One thing nobody's mentioned yet — keep an eye on your float voltage too.

@SimonJohnson67 Worth checking with the hire company first — some have clauses about attaching anything to the roof, but a portable folding panel sitting on the ground or propped against the van...

JasonPhillips | Posts: 847 @MountainBarry Completely normal mate, don't panic. LiFePO4 cells are typically shipped in a partial or varied state of charge deliberately - partly for transport safety...

JasonPhillips | Posts: 312 @PartnerConvert The monitoring gap is a real frustration with mixed systems — I've been there.

Good thread. Something I haven't seen mentioned yet — have you checked your battery temperature compensation settings?