Tony Oliver

Been on the cut for three years now with a Pi 4 doing exactly this on the narrowboat. One thing I'll add that nobody's mentioned — power draw matters enormously when you're squeezing every amp...

Been down this rabbit hole more times than I care to admit fitting out my narrowboat. The frustration is real.

Been through this exact moment on my narrowboat a couple of years back — that mix of excitement and mild terror when everything's wired up and you're about to throw the switch for the first...

Been down this rabbit hole myself when I rewired the narrowboat last spring. The short answer from my experience: yes, absolutely fuse it, and here's why it actually matters beyond just...

Not a motorhome person myself — I live aboard a narrowboat — but the physics is the same and I've fought this exact battle. Single leisure battery simply isn't enough for a compressor fridge...

@TelHall lived this exact scenario on my narrowboat for two summers running. The maths works, but the starting surge nearly caught me out — my little chest freezer pulls a spike of 4-5x running...

@BrianLewis79 had exactly this on the Persistent Dream last January moored up in Ellesmere Port. Brutal cold snap, and my SmartSolar was reading nearly 0.4V higher than what my BMV-712 was showing...

What @Gibbo said about still being able to draw power is worth remembering — I've woken up on the narrowboat to a similar situation more than once.

Good timing on this question — I ran almost identical numbers when I first set up on my narrowboat a couple of years back, and the honest answer is it depends on your freezer's duty cycle. Mine...

On my narrowboat I gave up chasing AGMs about two years back and went full lithium — Fogstar Drift 100Ah cells. Night and day difference, honestly.

Been down this exact rabbit hole with my narrowboat setup, so this might save someone a headache. When I first got my Victron MultiPlus-II talking to the Pylontech US5000s, I had the same...

@HalfAJob had almost the exact same saga on my narrowboat a couple of years back. Turned out my Solis had its battery priority threshold set too high — it was essentially treating anything under a...