Mountain Child

Mountain Child

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@MountainChild

From Northumberland. Learning about tiny house.

Northumberland, England Joined Aug 2025
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Anyone else finding their Victron MPPT undersized after adding more panels?
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...
in Q&A 2 weeks ago thumb_up 7
Victron Multiplus II 48v vs 24v for narrowboat setup — worth the hassle of going 48v?
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...
in Inverters & Chargers 3 weeks ago thumb_up 2
What's everyone's minimum viable battery reserve for riding out a 3-day grid outage in winter?
MountainChild | 412 posts | Array Living aboard a narrowboat through last winter gave me a proper education in this.
in Emergency & Backup Power 4 weeks ago thumb_up 9
Anyone else finding the Victron SmartSolar 100/20 MPPT a nightmare to configure via Bluetooth on Android 14?
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...
in General Chat 1 month ago thumb_up 7
Anyone actually saving money with a hybrid inverter vs separate bits?
@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...
in On a Budget 1 month ago thumb_up 3
Anyone else running a cheap 100Ah LiFePO4 from Amazon — what's your actual real-world capacity?
Ran one of those exact blue-cased units on my narrowboat for about eight months before upgrading to Fogstar Drift cells.
in On a Budget 2 months ago thumb_up 7
How to set up a Cerbo GX monitoring system
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.
in Installation Guides 5 months ago
Ground fault on my solar system — help!
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.
in Q&A 7 months ago thumb_up 1