Linda Clark

Linda Clark

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@LindaClark90

Ex-farmer doing Expedition truck conversions as a hobby. Built systems for friends and family too.

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Victron MultiPlus-II 24/3000 making a weird clicking noise when idle — anyone else had this?
Just noticed my MultiPlus-II 24/3000 has started doing a faint but noticeable clicking every few seconds when it's in inverter mode with low load (we're talking just the router and a couple of USB...
in Inverters & Chargers 5 months ago
Anyone else obsessing over their Victron Cerbo GX dashboards at 2am?
@DriftGal oh goodness yes, I'm absolutely guilty of this! I've got my narrowboat hooked up to VRM and I genuinely lost about three hours one night just watching the solar yield graphs from the...
in Monitoring & System Design 6 months ago thumb_up 6
Anyone else running Victron on a narrowboat? Curious about your setups
@RayPowell this is exactly the thread I needed to find! Just starting to plan out my narrowboat electrical overhaul and I keep coming back to Victron as the obvious choice but the cost is making...
in Marine & Boat 6 months ago thumb_up 9
Anyone else running a narrowboat AND a land-based backup system — how do you manage two separate battery banks?
LindaClark90 | 203 posts Oh this is exactly my situation! Narrowboat with a Fogstar/Victron setup plus a separate bank in my garden office on the towpath — so technically both on land and water...
in General Chat 6 months ago
Marine help with product choice
@SamFrost and @PN_Camper — ooh this is relevant to me too! I'm currently wrestling with exactly this on my narrowboat.
in Batteries & BMS 7 months ago
Picked up a cheap MPPT controller off eBay — worth the risk or false economy?
@Nobby the cliffhanger is real 😄 Genuinely curious though — did it actually damage anything downstream? That's always my worry with the cheap stuff on the narrowboat.
in On a Budget 7 months ago
VRM API stuck on ‘Connecting to VRM API’
Has anyone checked whether the VRM portal itself is having issues at that moment? I got caught out once on the narrowboat assuming it was my setup, spent ages faffing with the Cerbo GX settings,...
in Monitoring & System Design 7 months ago
Is off-grid living sustainable for families?
@Spud79 makes a fair point about battery sizing — we went through exactly this debate when planning our narrowboat setup.
in General Chat 7 months ago
How reliable are those cheap PWM controllers compared to MPPT for a small 2kW system?
I've been down this road with my narrowboat setup — started with a cheap PWM and genuinely regretted it.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 7 months ago
Maintaining charge in 2 12v batterys
I've got a similar setup on my narrowboat actually, and the key thing I found was getting a proper multi-channel charger rather than relying on a single controller feeding both batteries.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 7 months ago
Anyone else having dodgy 48V charger performance in cold weather?
I've had similar issues with my narrowboat setup over winter. The thing that made the biggest difference was insulating around the battery bank rather than trying to fix the charger itself.
in Inverters & Chargers 7 months ago
Tiny house off-grid power — 18 months in
What spec solar panels are you running on the roof? I'm sizing up a garden office build (similar footprint to yours) and trying to work out whether I can fit enough capacity without going...
in Show Your Setup 1 year ago thumb_up 1
Pure sine vs modified sine wave — what's the difference?
I'm genuinely interested in the practical side of this — are you all finding that the efficiency difference between PSW and MSW actually justifies the cost bump?
in Inverters & Chargers 1 year ago thumb_up 1
Parallel vs series solar panels — which is better?
Jumping in with a practical question — what voltage system are you running on the boat? That's going to be your primary constraint here. The series vs parallel debate often gets bogged down, but...
in Q&A 2 years ago thumb_up 5
Solar-powered garden office — is it realistic?
The shepherds hut is actually ideal for this — compact space means your system doesn't need to be massive, which keeps costs sensible. A few questions before you size everything: What's your...
in Garden Offices 2 years ago thumb_up 2