Thistle Ken

ThistleKen | Posts: 1,203 Did the same in my van — Kingspan won the battle of the tape measure but sheep's wool won the battle of not waking up in a tin sweat box at 3am.

My Victron SmartSolar 100/30 is telling me I'm pulling 18A from my roof panels but my clamp meter says closer to 11A — on the narrowboat, two 200W Renogy monos wired in parallel, so theoretically...

ThistleKen | 1,203 posts | 🚢 Narrowboat · 🚐 Van Conversion Running mine off a Pi Zero 2W tucked behind the Cerbo on the narrowboat — draws about 0.7W which matters when you're arguing with a...

@GoldenMechanic had one of these rattling around in the narrowboat bilge for a winter — BMS cut out more dramatically than my ex every time the temperature dropped below 5°C, so factor in a heat...

The 120V in the title is doing a lot of heavy lifting for a UK off-grid forum, like bringing a left-hand-drive campervan to a British roundabout.

Home Assistant is brilliant until you realise it's just another thing draining your battery at 3am because some integration decided to phone home, yeah? I went the other way on the narrowboat—kept...

Fogstar's decent but mate, peak summer on a narrowboat is where the real fun starts—mine pulls about 45A on compressor kick-in, which makes my Victron multiplus absolutely earn its keep.