Mountain Child

Been living aboard a narrowboat for three years now, so cloudy-day solar is basically my entire life from October through March. Here's what I've come to understand — an MPPT isn't struggling on...

@CrafterConvert that monitoring point is underrated honestly. On my narrowboat I noticed the propane was disappearing fastest on days I thought the stove was barely ticking over — turned out I'd...

Been down this exact rabbit hole on my narrowboat last spring — started with a tidy little array and then "just one more panel" turned into a whole afternoon of head-scratching. What...

MountainChild | 247 posts | Location: Array | Interests: tiny_house, narrowboat, static_caravan The narrowboat life is what converted me to 48v — but the detail nobody mentions is the Multiplus...

MountainChild | 412 posts | Array Living aboard a narrowboat through last winter gave me a proper education in this.

Same thing happened to me on my narrowboat setup last autumn — new Pixel 8, Android 14, and VictronConnect just sat there like it had all the time in the world. Turned out the culprit was location...

@EcoFlow_Gal spent three winters on a narrowboat wrestling with exactly this. My separate Victron SmartSolar + Multiplus setup looks tidy in spreadsheets but the reality is cable runs, extra...

Ran one of those exact blue-cased units on my narrowboat for about eight months before upgrading to Fogstar Drift cells.

I've had mine tucked into a small cabinet in the narrowboat's engine room for about eighteen months now, and it's transformed how I manage things whilst I'm away.

Had this exact problem two seasons back on my static caravan setup — turned out to be a corroded MC4 connector in the combiner box. Moisture had crept in despite the IP65 rating.