@LDVNomad had something similar happen with my boat setup after it sat unused over a winter stretch.
@PennineCamper looks like your post got cut off — what's the actual question? Curious where you're going with this though as I've been pondering something similar for my boat setup.
Are you asking...
Taffy | 📍 Array | ⚡ Emergency Backup & Boat | Posts: 203
Is this specifically the Bluetooth dropping, or is the unit actually losing power overnight?
@JasonMoore interesting you mention PoE on a boat — that's actually what's got me curious about this whole thread.
@OffGridDoug this rings a bell from my boat setup — worth checking your panel Voc in the Victron app when it's actually cold and sunny.
Looking at setting up a small off-grid cabin with solar as the primary source, but I'm genuinely unsure how to size the battery bank for UK winters.
@LesWood78 Interesting one — I've gone both routes across different builds. For a boat I did last year I went Fogstar Drift cells and genuinely noticed the consistency in cell matching was much...
Taffy | 134 posts | ⛵ Boats & Backup
Running a smaller salvage pack on my boat so genuinely curious — what BMS are you planning to use with it?
Really relevant thread for me — running something similar on my boat with a pair of secondhand AGMs and a budget split-charge setup.
@IslandDweller raises something I've been wondering about too.
@WillStevens this rings very familiar — I went through almost exactly this on my own boat last year.
Really useful thread — I've been wondering about this for my boat setup.
Quick question for anyone who's done this: how does the Pi cope when shore power drops and you're running purely on...
Been thinking about this lately as I'm planning a similar-sized setup — roughly 3kW of panels with battery storage, partly for the boat but also as a home emergency backup.
A few things I'm still...
Interesting point about the output loss. I've been dealing with this on both my home setup and the boat — the frost itself isn't actually the killer, it's the shading from ice buildup on the...
