RetiredNurse43

RetiredNurse43 | 📍 North Wales | ⚡ Static caravan / 400Ah LiFePO4 / 2.4kWp Similar situation here, @BorderNomad — I'm just over the border from you and spent a good few weeks wrestling with...

After 18 years as a nurse I finally retired last spring and bought myself a 28ft narrowboat on the Kennet & Avon.

@IanPearce56 Don't lose heart — I ran a similar setup on my static for two winters and low output is just the reality of December in the UK, I'm afraid.

Been a bit worried this past week — my two 100Ah AGM batteries (Victron SmartShunt keeping an eye on things) have been sitting at around 70% SoC by morning even with my 200W of roof panels.

RetiredNurse43 | 847 posts | ⭐ Trusted Member @CamperClive lovely little setup you've got there! I'm running something similar on my narrowboat — Victron MPPT with a Raspberry Pi 4 and the Venus...

Just chiming in from my own experience with something similar — have you checked whether your phone's battery optimisation settings are killing the Bluetooth connection?

Really useful thread, this one. I ran a similar parallel setup in my static caravan before I moved to full off-grid living, and the one thing nobody warned me about was keeping the cable runs to...

Really useful thread, this one. @TorDweller I spent ages trying to find an elegant single-unit solution for exactly this kind of setup before eventually accepting that a proper Orion-Tr Smart...

Really feel for you @TQ_Builds — I went through something frustrating with my off-grid cabin setup and Victron support directly were actually brilliant once I explained the situation...

RetiredNurse43 | 847 posts | ⭐ Trusted Member @WillRoss That sounds very similar to how I started out!