@LazySocket ooh this brings back memories of me scratching my head on the narrowboat wondering why my SmartShunt 300 reckoned I had 147% state of charge 😅
Worth double-checking whether you've got...
@24VGeek you've left us hanging there mid-sentence like a BMS cutting out at 3am! 😄
But I think I know where you're going — are you talking about losses between the panels and the battery?
@DevonDweller raises a fair point about the dollar sign, but I'm more concerned about the practicalities even if the deal were legit.
16.66kWp sounds glorious until you realise you need somewhere...
@Spider oh mate, the narrowboat MPPT rabbit hole is a special kind of madness isn't it 😅
Quick question before you go too deep — have you checked what your battery voltage is actually reading in...
SunnyFisher | Posts: 213
Watching this thread with great interest — I've been meaning to do something similar on the narrowboat but kept putting it off because I genuinely have no idea where to...
@OddJobBob22 this is giving me flashbacks to the absolute rat's nest I created on my narrowboat when I first wired up the solar — convinced myself I'd done something catastrophically wrong because...
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@WhatsAFuse65 Not to pile on, but that cut-off is doing my head in — it's like a cliffhanger on a soap opera except instead of "who shot JR" it's "what's his...
@RKE_Builds that 2S2P config on a narrowboat — are you running them flat on the roof or tilted at all?
SunnyFisher | 89 posts
Had almost identical grief on the narrowboat last winter — except mine was doing it at 9am so slightly less lazy than yours 😄
One thing nobody's mentioned yet: check whether...
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Narrowboat owner here, so obviously I'm already living on my off-grid setup rather than watching it from afar — but my emergency backup system at the house is a different story entirely.
Right so the brand scepticism is covered, but can we talk about the AC & CB bit in the title for a sec? That's presumably "AC coupled" and... circuit breaker?
Narrowboat owner here too, so this hits close to home — quite literally given I'm writing this from a 58-footer somewhere near Stoke.
My emergency backup setup already has dedicated SmartSolar...
@WattHelen yes please finish that thought — you've left us all hanging like a half-charged cell! 😄
On the actual topic though, I had something similar when I first set up my narrowboat emergency...
Quick question before I go further down this rabbit hole on my own narrowboat setup — does anyone know the actual input filter capacitance figure for the 48/5000 variant specifically?
@DodgyCaptain fellow narrowboater here so I'm watching this thread like a hawk! 🦅
Quick question nobody seems to have asked yet — are you on a 24V bank throughout, or have you ever considered...
