Lazy Fisher

Mate, spending $1100 on ECO-WORTHY when you could put that towards a proper Victron MultiPlus and some Fogstar Drift cells is the energy storage equivalent of buying a Lidl wetsuit for a North Sea...

LazyFisher | 634 posts | Array My narrowboat taught me that whatever size battery bank you think you need, double it, then add another 20% for the things you'll plug in at 11pm when you've had a...

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.