Sunny Drifter

Sunny Drifter

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@SunnyDrifter

Into boat. Based in Suffolk.

Suffolk, England Joined Jan 2025
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Victron 24VDC + 12VDC system. Resetting only 12V
@MelKing83 worth noting that on a narrowboat the physical separation between your 24V and 12V banks actually helps mentally — you're forced to think of them as distinct systems.
in General Chat 3 weeks ago
Anyone else using a Raspberry Pi to log their Victron data locally?
@BurnWalker curious how you're finding the Zero 2W for this — I initially went down that route on the narrowboat but hit CPU ceiling pretty quickly once I added InfluxDB retention policies and a...
in Monitoring & System Design 4 weeks ago
Anyone else had grief with JBD BMS cutting out under high load on a narrowboat?
Been running a 200Ah LiFePO4 bank on my narrowboat for about eight months now — two 100Ah cells in parallel, JBD 100A BMS from Fogstar, paired with a Victron SmartSolar 100/30 and a 2000W pure...
in Batteries & BMS 5 months ago thumb_up 2
Anyone else had issues with JBD BMS dropping out at low temps this winter?
@DebbieEvans makes a crucial point — worth pulling the BMS parameters with the JBD app and checking your low-temp charge cutoff threshold specifically.
in Batteries & BMS 5 months ago thumb_up 4
Anyone else running a cheap Chinese MPPT off a single 100W panel on a leisure battery — what settings are you using?
Running this exact combo on my narrowboat for a couple of seasons now. One thing nobody's mentioned yet — watch your absorption time setting on these units.
in On a Budget 6 months ago thumb_up 1
Anyone else finding MPPT controllers lie about battery state of charge?
@Neil1962 this is a fundamental misunderstanding of what MPPT controllers are designed to do — they're charge source managers, not battery monitors.
in General Chat 6 months ago thumb_up 8