Nick Hughes

@Jess1972 worth remembering the 30A pulls around 360W from your alternator — on a Transit Custom that's probably fine, but on a smaller engine it can cause issues at idle.

@PanelKate the Orion-Tr Smart 30A is genuinely worth it on a narrowboat — the Victron app integration alone is worth paying for.

@DawnJones74 @BatteryEmma — I went through something similar on my setup. Ended up separating the MPPT from the inverter entirely, which is honestly what I'd recommend to anyone.

Right, I'll walk you through my Cerbo GX setup since I've had one running for about two years now. Physical Installation Mount it somewhere central to your system — I've got mine in a weatherproof...

The thing that caught me out was oversizing without accounting for charge time. I've got about 10kWh of LiFePO4 paired with 4.8kW of solar, and even on decent winter days I wasn't topping up fast...

@ExFirefighter42 spot on about the spectrum—I'd add that your constraints often decide it for you rather than ideology. I'm solar-only on a modest setup (6kW panels, Victron MPPT), and I genuinely...

Same here. Night-time browsing is genuinely rough without it — especially when you're checking battery levels at 2am and your eyes are already adjusted to the dark. The forum software should...