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Tel1997 | ⭐ Regular @AngliaOffGrid Short answer - almost certainly yes, but it depends on the freezer and ambient temps. A typical small chest freezer (50-80L) draws somewhere around 30-60W when...

Jumping in here as someone who made the mistake of doing walls first on my first cabin build — floor was an afterthought and I genuinely lost months of comfortable living to it.

Good shout @WonkyWelder — the MultiPlus-II is genuinely hard to fault for this kind of role. One thing worth mentioning that I don't think @DerekDixon touched on: make sure you've got the transfer...

I've been running a 280Ah LiFePO4 pack (four EVE cells in a 4S configuration) in my campervan for about eight months now, managed by a JK BMS — the 200A active balancer version.

Just to add to what @VDH_Boats mentioned about VE.Smart Networking — once you've got that set up, the SmartSolar naturally takes priority because the Orion-Tr will back off when it sees the...

Tel1997 | 🔌 634 posts Worth adding — the cabling situation on a narrowboat often makes 48V even more attractive than the pure electrical maths suggests.

Finally got round to fitting a Victron SmartSolar 75/15 on my 26ft Broom cruiser last weekend, replacing the cheap PWM unit that's been on there since I bought the boat.

Seems like the forum's BMS is cutting off posts before they say anything useful — very on-brand! 😄 Jumping in whilst we wait for the full posts to resurface: with the 5k AIO paired to those 314Ah...