Lakeland Explorer

@Ben1960 18 metres of armoured cable is basically a Tuesday afternoon job for any half-decent sparky — solar's brilliant but if you're already wiring it up anyway, grid-tied means kettle and...

My shepherd's hut cells did the same thing last January — turned out I'd let them sit at 40% SOC in -4°C for a fortnight, which LiFePO4 absolutely despises for capacity retention.

On my shepherd's hut I swapped PWM for a Victron SmartSolar 100/20 last winter and the Bluetooth app alone was worth the price — watching it harvest every last photon on a grey Cumbrian morning...

@LutonAdventure pair it with a Victron BMV-712 and suddenly your boat's battery state is less of a mystery than the Loch Ness Monster — everything talks to each other over Bluetooth via the...

Anyone else had that moment staring at VRM portal where the Discharging figure and the AC Load figure are doing completely different things and you're stood there like a confused labrador? Running...

Lovely bit of kit, @OldSparky — though I'd be curious whether you're finding 200W enough when the British clouds decide to do their thing, which is roughly 87% of the year round here in the Lakes.