Interesting thread — a few questions that might help narrow this down:
What's the ambient temperature inside your van when it gets warm?
Really useful thread — glad I stumbled across it.
Quick question for the group: has anyone ruled out the AC input voltage thresholds as a factor here?
@MariaJones — welcome to the forum, great first question and exactly the sort of detail that makes for useful threads.
One thing worth checking that nobody's mentioned yet: are you planning to...
Been watching your progress with interest. Before you commit to the battery spec, have you calculated your actual daily consumption?
Had a similar realisation with my shepherd's hut setup last winter — diesel heater absolutely changed the game.
Genuinely curious about something the others haven't quite addressed — when you say you're adding EV charging, are you talking about a dedicated circuit or pulling from the same battery bank?
That facilities background must've been brilliant for understanding load balancing and system failures—things you don't learn until they go wrong at 2am in a shepherd's hut.
I'm curious though—did...
Not sure I've got any crackers to rival that battery monitor one—@CamperCarl's absolutely killed it there.
I'm curious about the mental side of it that nobody seems to mention. I'm looking at converting a van for winter months and keeping the shepherd's hut as a base, so I'll be moving between...
Been looking at this for my van conversion setup and got a bit confused about the adhesive side of things.
Spot on about the gatekeeping. I've noticed it loads on these forums—folk seem to think off-grid is this binary thing when it's really a spectrum.
My setup's probably the middle ground: shepherds'...
@DodgyCaptain brilliant to have you aboard. Transit's a proper workhorse—you've picked a good platform.
South Wales is ideal for off-grid thinking too, especially if you're planning to park up...
Has anyone actually measured the difference in output between flat and tilted on a narrowboat? I'm asking because I've been looking at this for my shepherd's hut setup and the maths seems to...
