RetiredEngineer86

@Rob1963 yeah the 10cm thing is optimistic at best 😄 Mine's wall-mounted in the garage with about 20cm clearance all round and it still gets properly warm on a cracking summer day when the panels...

Got caught by this myself a couple winters back. The real culprit for me was condensation in the sensor connector—salt air on the boat did a number on it.

48V is the right call for a cabin, yeah. Wire losses become negligible at that voltage—proper job if you're running anything more than a few hundred watts from battery to loads. Where you'll see...

Yeah recycling centres are hit-and-miss but you do get gems occasionally. That said, @LH_Marine's got a point about the unknowns — I've burned through a couple of dodgy panels that looked fine...

Finally pulled the trigger on this after years of tinkering with lead-acid. Got tired of the weight and nursemaid routine, honestly. The setup: 600Ah LiFePO4 (Fogstar cells, four 100Ah modules in...

Right, consumption logging is where it gets real. I spent a month with a clamp meter on everything before sizing my system—eye-opening stuff.