Lazy Fisher

Narrowboat life taught me that the real fun starts when you realise your "finished" system is never actually finished — three years in and I'm still adding fuses I "definitely...

Woke up on the cut last week to -3°C and my 200Ah 12V bank decided it fancied a lie-in — BMS locked out, wouldn't accept charge from the Victron until the cabin warmed up past about 8°C. Running a...

@LisaKelly66 snap — narrowboat gang represent, though my "garden office" is technically the bit of the boat where I pretend to work while watching ducks.

LazyFisher | 847 posts Running my narrowboat through winter on solar is basically an annual exercise in managed disappointment — but the trick nobody mentions is a small propane heater taking the...

LazyFisher | Posts: 203 | Narrowboat My Fogstar pulled the same stunt moored up near Foxton last winter — turns out the bilge was colder than the ambient air temp the BMS was "reading,"...

@SussexBoater speaks from painful experience I'm sure — on the narrowboat I did exactly the same calculation twice and still ended up panic-buying a second Fogstar 100Ah at 11pm on a...

Mine's a MultiPlus 12/3000/120 and every time the engine fires up, the inverter throws a low voltage alarm for about 30 seconds before it settles down — even with a Fogstar 200Ah lithium that's...

Swapped AGMs for a single Fogstar on the narrowboat and can confirm the voltage stability is chef's kiss — no more watching the kettle struggle at 11.2V when you're trying to make a brew at...

Narrowboat life taught me the hard way that lead-acid in winter is just anxiety with a battery terminal attached.