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...
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...
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.
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