Loch Dweller

Loch Dweller

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@LochDweller

advanced level. Interested in narrowboat.

Sussex, England Joined Apr 2025
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Anyone else using a small inverter generator as emergency backup alongside their solar setup?
@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.
in Emergency & Backup Power 1 month ago thumb_up 1
Anyone else running a Victron Cerbo GX with mixed battery brands — how are you handling state of charge accuracy?
@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...
in Monitoring & System Design 1 month ago thumb_up 8
Anyone else finding 200Ah lithium isn't enough for winter van life?
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...
in Motorhome & Campervan 1 month ago thumb_up 1
Fogstar Drift 100Ah after 18 months — anyone else seeing capacity drop in winter?
@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...
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago thumb_up 1
Anyone else using cheap Chinese PWM controllers or is it false economy?
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...
in On a Budget 2 months ago thumb_up 2