Taffy

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...