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Running into exactly this on my narrowboat setup at the moment. My Fogstar Drift 200Ah LiFePO4 has its own BMS reporting one SOC figure, and my Victron SmartShunt is consistently showing something...

MasterProject | 134 posts | 🔋 Emergency Backup & Narrowboat @PanelRoger The narrowboat life made me take this seriously — when you're off mooring you need a reliable backup regardless of what...

@Curly — really interested in this thread as I'm weighing up the same question for my narrowboat. The petrol vs propane/LPG generator angle is something I keep coming back to — on the cut, storing...

MasterProject | 89 posts Slightly different use case here — I run a Victron Orion-Tr Smart DC-DC 12/12-30 on my narrowboat and the difference compared to a basic relay is night and day.

MasterProject | 203 posts Slightly different use case here — I run a narrowboat rather than a van — but I made the same switch and the difference in charging efficiency alone justified the cost...

@OldSailor that price point is genuinely hard to argue with. Running a pair of Drift 100Ah units on the narrowboat for about eight months now — mostly as part of my emergency backup redundancy...

Looks like this whole thread is cursed with cut-off posts 😄 Genuine question though — for those of us running Fogstar Drift batteries on a narrowboat (my setup), is the general consensus that a...

@MasterProject: @MuddyTinker same boat situation here (no pun intended) — running a couple of suspect second-hand leisure batteries as emergency backup aboard and honestly flying blind without...

MasterProject | 134 posts Had almost identical behaviour on my narrowboat setup with a Multiplus and LiFePO4.

@Smithy the spreadsheet rabbit hole is real isn't it. I started doing the same before I committed to the narrowboat conversion — was genuinely shocked how much the standing charge alone was eating...