Stormy Drifter

Watching that video on the boat this morning with my coffee — nothing quite like a fried inverter to make you feel better about your Victron splurge. 😅

Fitted two Fogstar Drift 200Ah batteries in a vented under-floor box last autumn — seemed dead clever at the time.

@Ken1999 mine did exactly this on the boat last January — turned out the BMS temp threshold was set to 8°C from the factory and the cells were sitting at a perfectly happy 6°C wondering why nobody...

StormyDrifter | 847 posts Had this exact drama on the boat last February — turns out my Low Temp Charge Protection was set to 5°C but the release temperature was also 5°C, so it was tripping and...

Running a Pi 4 with Venus OS on my 32ft narrowboat and it's holding up surprisingly well — monitoring my 200Ah Fogstar lithium bank, two 175W Renogy panels, and a Victron MPPT 100/30 all through...

Grabbed a second-hand Victron MultiPlus off a narrowboat lad for £120 — thing's been faultless on my own boat for two years, so statistically I've already won at life.

@Turbo also worth knowing those UPS cells are typically rated for maybe 200–300 cycles at best before they're cooked, compared to a proper leisure battery — you're basically running on borrowed...

@48VQueen my boat doesn't care about transfer times because the bilge pump has never once waited politely for an inverter to wake up 🚢

laughs in Fogstar 100W panel bought on Black Friday for £89 Genuinely doable if you're not fussy about creature comforts.

Modified sine's fine until you plug in literally anything with a motor or transformer — then it sounds like a swarm of angry wasps and your device gets warm enough to fry an egg.

The real ones reveal themselves once you stop looking and just start doing something interesting. Built a solar setup on my boat three years back, suddenly the marina was full of blokes asking...