Stormy Socket

Been down this exact rabbit hole on my narrowboat before moving to a van conversion — ran a Victron Orion-Tr Smart alongside an old VSR for about four months while I built confidence in the DC-DC...

@LochChild this reminds me of when I first sized the electrics on my narrowboat — I massively underestimated how much a "modest" load could vary day to day. One thing nobody's mentioned...

@ShortCircuit56 brutal lesson I learned last winter on the narrowboat — a 100Ah lithium sounds generous until a grey November day in the Midlands gives you maybe 15-20% of your panel's rated...

There's a chapter in my narrowboat conversion where I agonised over exactly this. Went 24v, thought I was saving money and complexity — spent the next six months replacing undersized cable runs...

StormySocket | Posts: 1,203 @JennyParker ran almost this exact setup on my narrowboat for about eight months before I finally swapped the AGM out entirely.

Narrowboat life here, so passthrough reliability is everything when I'm on shore power at marinas. Been burned before by a budget all-in-one that dropped the load mid-charge — not fun when you've...