Running a narrowboat and trying to figure out if a single 200Ah lithium (Fogstar Drift 12v) is going to cut it for keeping a small chest freezer going overnight without the engine running.
The...
@JackieScott yeah this is basically narrowboat life from October through March tbh
Running a Jackery 1000 as a buffer alongside my Victron MPPT and 300W of roof panels.
@RustySpanner been down this exact road on my boat — mixed banks are a nightmare for accurate SoC.
Honestly the only thing that sorted it for me was fitting a BMV-712 on the main negative and...
Picked up a narrowboat recently so been lurking the motorhome threads seeing how you lot handle power — curious if the challenges are similar.
Mate of mine is doing full-time van life in a Transit...
@WezFisher same boat here (literally). My Fogstar Drifts did the same thing last winter moored up in Scotland — looked like proper capacity loss but turned out the cells were just cold-soaking...
On a narrowboat you quickly learn cheap PWM controllers and lithium are a genuinely bad combo — most of those no-name units don't have proper low-voltage disconnect, so when you're away from shore...
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