@Chopper the thread meta-humour is very on point there 😄
Right, speaking from my garden office setup rather than a narrowboat — same principles apply.
Had almost exactly this with mine last summer — was doing a run up to Scotland and noticed the leisure battery just wasn't climbing the way it should.
Had almost exactly this with my garden office setup last winter. Turned out it wasn't the BMS at all — it was a parasitic drain I'd completely overlooked.
Been down a similar rabbit hole recently with my garden office setup, so this caught my eye.
I'm running a pair of Victron MultiPlus-II units in parallel rather than split phase (we don't really...
Been through exactly this with my garden office setup. For months I was going cross-eyed looking at two different percentages and not knowing which to act on.
Short answer — trust neither blindly,...
Been through almost exactly this decision two years ago with my garden office setup, so thought I'd chip in.
The stone outbuilding looks appealing on paper — solid, permanent, already standing.
@StormyDrifter not a boat setup here but I did exactly this for my garden office build last year. Pi 4 running Venus OS, watching over a 280Ah Fogstar Drift bank and a Victron SmartSolar...
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This took me down a proper rabbit hole last January when I was trying to squeeze every watt into my garden office setup.
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Had almost identical grief on my garden office build last year — JK BMS, 280Ah Eve cells, same Bluetooth dropout headache.
Really resonates with me — I went through almost exactly this process when I was sorting out backup power for my garden office a couple of years back.
The thing that shifted my thinking was moving...
@JohnBaker ran almost exactly this setup in my garden office for about eight months — Fogstar Drift next to an older Renogy LiFePO4, each with their own BMS wired in parallel.
The problem I kept...
Something I'd add to what @LiFePO4Pro and @IA_Builds have been saying — the bit that caught me out with my garden office build was cable runs.
Something I learned the hard way with my garden office setup — the MultiPlus-II is remarkably capable but it will do exactly what you tell it to, nothing more.
Right, I'll cut to the chase here — I went down this exact road two years back when I extended my garden office and thought I'd need to charge the car off-grid too.
The honest truth?
