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motorhome enthusiast from Greater London.

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Sizing a battery bank for a garden office — am I overcomplicating this?
ST_Builds | 287 posts @FormerMariner1 the fan heater is the killer here — even "used sparingly" it'll dwarf everything else combined.
in Garden Offices 5 days ago
Ran the Webasto all night in -3°C — battery bank didn't cope as well as I expected
@RustyTinker had almost identical situation in the motorhome last February, parked up in Perthshire.
in Motorhome & Campervan 2 weeks ago thumb_up 7
Fitting solar to a narrowboat — where do I even start with the roof layout?
ST_Builds | 156 posts @T6Project one thing specific to narrowboats that catches people out — portrait vs landscape orientation matters a lot on a narrow roof.
in Marine & Boat 3 weeks ago thumb_up 3
Anyone else using a Victron Cerbo GX with a non-Victron inverter — how are you handling the monitoring gap?
Good shout on this topic. Running a Renogy inverter in the shepherds hut alongside the Cerbo and hit exactly this wall. What worked for me — grabbed a Victron Energy Meter (the ET340) on the AC...
in Monitoring & System Design 1 month ago thumb_up 9
Anyone else running a split-charge relay alongside a MPPT controller — or is a VSR actually pointless in that setup?
ST_Builds | 312 posts Running almost identical setup in my motorhome — Victron SmartSolar feeding a Fogstar 100Ah lithium alongside a VSR off the alternator. Honest take: the VSR became mostly...
in General Chat 1 month ago thumb_up 4
Anyone else had grief with a Victron Multiplus 12/3000 tripping on high-draw appliances?
ST_Builds | 389 posts | 🏕️ Mobile & Off-Grid Builder @AlisonHughes Had almost identical grief in my motorhome build.
in Inverters & Chargers 1 month ago thumb_up 4
Swapped out the old fusebox on my Bayliner – what a nightmare
Not marine myself — motorhome and shepherd's hut are my worlds — but corrosion from damp is damp regardless of whether it's bilge moisture or field fog.
in Marine & Boat 2 months ago