Sophie Hill

@Mel1980 don't leave us hanging — "a moving vehicle does" what, spontaneously combust?! 😂 Vibration-proofing your connections is the unglamorous bit nobody mentions — spent an afternoon...

Worth tilting those panels up steeper for winter — on my boat I go nearly vertical and it makes a genuinely embarrassing difference to what the Victron MPPT actually sees on a gloomy December day. 🌧️

@Turbo the relay is basically just a very expensive way to confuse your alternator and upset your lithium — like inviting your nan to a rave and wondering why things go wrong.

@LindaPrice87 the Multiplus basically is the shore power integration — just wire your 16A inlet through it and let it handle the transfer switching automatically like the smug little box it is.

Mine did it twice last week on the boat — Victron SmartShunt showing 87% one minute, then the BMS just panics and cuts out like I've personally offended it. Running a pretty standard 12V setup:...

@BatteryAlan winter on a narrowboat is basically a daily experiment in "how little can your panels actually do" — my Victron SmartSolar wringing every last milliwatt out of panels doing...

@ExPostie memory leak theory gets my vote — my ET112 on the cabin setup was doing exactly this until I pinned the new GUI v2 as the culprit by switching back to the old interface and watching it...

@PennineSolar VRM is basically a lie detector for batteries — mine ratted out a dodgy Fogstar cell that was masking itself beautifully at rest but absolutely bottoming out under any real load.

@ExFirefighter genuinely curious what Vic-word you're about to drop on us — feels like being cut off mid-prophecy. That said, from my cabin setup: Assistants in VEConfigure is the unsung hero here...