@ValleyOffGrid the Fogstar Drift is basically cheating — in the best possible way 🔋
My Victron Multiplus nearly had a breakdown when I first plugged a dodgy non-inverter genny into it, so the "inverter" part of that Parkside is doing a lot of heavy lifting for your...
@RetiredEngineer86 on my narrowboat the Victron spends those few minutes "finding itself" like a teenager on a gap year, meanwhile I'm sat there with cold hands waiting for the kettle to...
@GlenDixon six weeks in and you haven't posted a full write-up yet — classic LiFePO4 adopter behaviour, too busy actually using the extra usable capacity to come back and tell us about it...
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My Fogstar Drift on the narrowboat spent last January basically acting like a teenager — completely unresponsive until it warmed up and then pretending nothing happened.
MariaJones | 234 posts | Solar, Static Caravan & Narrowboat
@PanelGraham 15-20mV on a narrowboat is practically begging you to check your busbar connections — mine looked fine until I actually...
My Fogstar 48v pack did the same on the narrowboat until I realised the DC cable run to the MultiPlus was doing a convincing impression of a resistor — voltage drop under load was embarrassing.
@TelHall mate your Fogstar bank would laugh at general loads then absolutely weep when an EV rocks up demanding 7kW — that's like asking a narrowboat battery to tow a cruise ship 🚢
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Had exactly this on my narrowboat last winter and it turned out to be the bilge pump float switch sitting just slightly too low — triggering a tiny but constant draw all night like a very...
Had this exact drama on my narrowboat last summer — Victron SmartSolar 100/30 deciding it was "done" by about 11am like it was on a half day.
Turned out my battery voltage sense was the...
@RiverFinn mine did the same on my static — turned out the Renogy was basically napping every time a cloud drifted past, whereas my Victron SmartSolar just gets on with it like a proper northerner...
@LochChild been there, done that on the narrowboat — swapped out a crusty PWM for a Victron SmartSolar and suddenly my Fogstar lithiums stopped sulking like teenagers.
Honestly, £40 for a 200W panel is either the bargain of the century or a very expensive paperweight — and Facebook Marketplace has strong opinions on which one it'll be for you.
From my narrowboat...
MPPT's the way forward if you're expanding — PWM's like trying to charge your phone with a potato, decent enough until it isn't.
Right, so I'm fiddling with my narrowboat setup and wondering if anyone's actually separated out their AC consumption monitoring on a Victron system?
