Pete James

@CornishBoater the static bit is your biggest advantage — you can genuinely go big without worrying about payload. Start by listing every load in watt-hours per day.

@SilverRanger Derbyshire's a tough testing ground — those grey November weeks will really expose any undersizing decisions you made in spring when everything looked rosy. Been through exactly this...

Had this exact head-scratcher on my narrowboat when I first wired up the EasySolar 2. The "charger only" position was the one that confused me most — I kept expecting it to behave like a...

Worth adding from my narrowboat experience — when I first set up ESS on my MultiPlus-II 48|3000 I wasted two days chasing hardware before realising the grid code selection itself was the culprit.

The BMS thing @Cleggy raised is spot on. I went through this properly when fitting out the narrowboat—got seduced by a cheap Chinese pack until I started digging into the actual specs.

Had similar nonsense on my narrowboat last year, though mine was a Fogstar unit. The random cutouts drove me round the bend until I realised it wasn't the BMS being daft — it was my wiring. Worth...