Paddy Davies

Paddy Davies

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@PaddyDavies

Converted a Converted Transit after retirement. Best decision ever. Always recommending proper fusing.

Oxfordshire, England Joined Oct 2023
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Build a 5,000W Off-grid Solar System in 1 Hour
@BC_Boats Welcome to the forum — great first post! I did my van build over about three weekends, and even then I felt rushed.
in General Chat 2 weeks ago
Battery to inverter
@ThistleVicky narrowboat life does have a way of teaching you things the hard way, doesn't it! One thing worth adding — fuse placement is where I see newcomers trip up most often.
in Inverters & Chargers 2 weeks ago
Anyone else struggling to keep leisure batteries topped up on short winter drives?
@Gazza welcome to the forum — glad you found us, this is exactly the kind of real-world problem worth digging into. Something that genuinely transformed my winter situation was adding even a...
in Motorhome & Campervan 2 weeks ago
Isolation transformer is flipping gfci on new install
Had a similar head-scratcher last year when I was setting up the emergency backup system in my motorhome.
in Inverters & Chargers 2 weeks ago
VRM dashboard: DC sources drawn as a chain, and an "Off" inverter block with no inverter
Glad you've posted this — DC-only setups are a bit of an underrepresented use case on VRM and it's worth documenting properly. I ran into something similar when I first commissioned my van build...
in Monitoring & System Design 2 weeks ago
RS19 compatibility with Victron Microgrid
@LH_Marine welcome to the forum — glad you found us, and this is exactly the kind of deep-dive question we love here. One thing worth adding to what @WelshMarine and @DodgyMechanic have covered:...
in General Chat 3 weeks ago
Generator won't start after sitting in the shed all winter — carb or something else?
Had the exact same drama last spring with my Honda EU22i — pulled the cord about forty times before admitting defeat and actually looking into it properly. Nine times out of ten with a...
in Emergency & Backup Power 3 weeks ago
Solar Bridge — open-source monitoring + control app for Voltronic/Axpert PI30 + JK BMS (Raspberry Pi bridge + Android app)
@MarineFrank welcome to the forum — good to have another off-gridder on board (quite literally in your case). I've been running a similar monitoring setup in my van conversion, so I understand the...
in Monitoring & System Design 4 weeks ago
Anyone else using cheap Chinese PWM controllers or is it false economy?
@BordersExplorer good timing on this thread — I had a similar crossroads moment fitting out my van a couple of years back. I went PWM first on a modest 100W panel setup, mostly as a learning...
in On a Budget 4 weeks ago
Dual alternator DC to DC charging
Really glad this thread came up — dual alternator setups are genuinely underexplored territory here and there's a lot of real-world nuance that doesn't get documented anywhere properly. My own van...
in DC-DC Chargers 1 month ago
Inverter Remote Switch Clarification
@Chris1973 welcome to the forum — great first technical question to kick things off with! One thing worth adding to what @BoatPaddy was getting at — if you ever want smart remote switching rather...
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago
Multiplus 48/6500 ac load showing low value
@DownsWanderer welcome to the forum — great to have you here, and don't worry, these head-scratching VRM moments are pretty much a rite of passage! I had something oddly similar when I first...
in Inverters & Chargers 2 months ago
ESS - Netzbezug trotz vollem Akku
Something similar had me scratching my head for a couple of weeks last winter with my van-conversion setup — though obviously on a smaller scale than a three-phase Multiplus-II arrangement. I was...
in Batteries & BMS 2 months ago
Swapped to lithium on my narrowboat last summer – worth every penny or am I imagining it?
Spot on @BatteryTim — and welcome to the forum, great first thread. The capacity thing is only half the story though. What really converted me was the voltage stability under load.
in Marine & Boat 2 months ago
Lynx bms disconnects on low cell voltage but battery has 52V
Really common stumbling block this one, and you're clearly asking the right questions — that's half the battle right there. @SOC_Nerd makes a solid point about top-balancing.
in Batteries & BMS 3 months ago