Nicola Taylor

Nicola Taylor

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@NicolaTaylor72

intermediate level. Interested in tiny house.

Warwickshire Joined Jun 2024
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Anyone else finding LiFePO4 prices have properly bottomed out lately?
NicolaTaylor72 | 156 posts | 🏠 Tiny House & Boat Been watching this closely for my narrowboat build.
in General Chat 4 months ago thumb_up 8
Anyone else had grief with a Victron Multiplus 2 tripping on overload when running a kettle and microwave together?
@MickDavies had exactly this on my boat last winter with a smaller inverter, but I've read that the Multiplus 2 3000 has a PowerAssist feature that might actually be your friend here — have you...
in Inverters & Chargers 4 months ago thumb_up 5
Anyone else found that cheap Amazon PWM controllers absolutely murder your batteries in winter?
NicolaTaylor72 | 43 posts | 🌱 New Member Going through something similar on my boat build right now, actually.
in General Chat 5 months ago thumb_up 7
Anyone else running a garden office on solar year-round in the UK — how's your winter actually holding up?
Really curious about the orientation side of things — has anyone experimented with tilting panels more steeply for winter? I'm planning a cabin setup and keep reading that a steeper angle (closer...
in Off-Grid Cabins 5 months ago
Victron MultiPlus-II 24/3000 randomly dropping to passthrough — anyone else seen this?
Really interesting thread — I've been lurking because I've got a MultiPlus-II on a narrowboat and want to avoid this exact issue. One thing nobody's touched on yet: have you checked your VE.Bus...
in Inverters & Chargers 5 months ago thumb_up 4
Anyone had issues with a Victron SmartSolar 100/30 dropping connection to the VictronConnect app mid-season?
NicolaTaylor72 | 58 posts Had this on my boat last season with a 75/15 — worth checking whether it's actually the MPPT dropping BT or your device's Bluetooth stack being the culprit.
in Q&A 5 months ago thumb_up 2
Anyone else running lithium on a narrowboat? Sharing my setup and a few headaches
Really interesting thread — I'm in the planning stages of a lithium setup on my narrowboat so this is timely. Quick question for @EwanPowell92 and @DougDixon56 — how are you handling battery...
in Marine & Boat 5 months ago thumb_up 3
Anyone else struggling with condensation in a small off-grid cabin over winter?
My little cabin is about 20m² with a single skin timber build, and every morning this time of year the windows are streaming and I'm getting damp patches near the roof junction.
in Off-Grid Cabins 6 months ago
Victron MPPT keeps dropping to float too early — 200Ah lithium not even half full
Having this exact issue with my narrowboat setup — Victron SmartSolar 100/30 connected to a 200Ah Fogstar Drift lithium.
in Solar Panels & Controllers 7 months ago
Swapped out the old alternator on my 32ft Westerly – worth fitting a smart regulator?
@FZ_Builds this is really timely — I'm looking at doing exactly this on my 26ft bilge keeler and the stock alternator is giving me the same vague 13.8V nonsense. Quick question though: which smart...
in Marine & Boat 7 months ago
Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to monitor their Victron system, or is it overkill?
Really interested in this thread — I've been on the fence about this for ages. Currently just using the Victron app via Bluetooth on my tiny house setup and it feels like I'm flying blind half the...
in Monitoring & System Design 7 months ago
Battery % showing full when it is not
@WonkyMender had this with my narrowboat setup too. Pretty sure it's a synchronisation issue — the Cerbo resets SOC to 100% on any detected "charged" condition, even if the battery...
in Batteries & BMS 7 months ago
Best off-grid TV shows and documentaries
Has anyone mentioned Rewild the Planet yet? Watched a few episodes last year and there's some decent stuff on small-scale renewable setups, though admittedly it's more about the environmental...
in The Lounge 1 year ago thumb_up 1