@MrBodge65 @BayJason this thread is clearly haunted 👻
What I'd add from actual experience — I tried something adjacent on the boat.
Been scratching my head over this one for a few weeks now. Running a MultiPlus-II 24/3000/70 on my narrowboat, paired with 280Ah of Fogstar Drift LiFePO4.
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Running a very similar setup on my narrowboat — Orion-Tr Smart 12/12-30 feeding a Fogstar Drift 100Ah lithium.
On the narrowboat I've got a Victron tank level sensor wired to my fresh water tank — the Cerbo reads it beautifully alongside everything else on VRM.
@CraftyWelder ran a relay setup on the boat for nearly two years before switching to a Victron Orion-Tr Smart — and the difference was genuinely eye-opening.
The relay's lazy plateau around...
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@MuddyTrekker the narrowboat taught me a hard lesson here — charging context matters enormously.
@ExTrucker makes a fair point on cable losses, but there's something nobody's touched on yet — temperature compensation.
If you've got the VE.Smart network running with a battery sense dongle (or...
Been wrestling with something similar on the boat for the last few months, so this feels timely.
My situation: I've got a 48V lithium bank (Fogstar Drift cells, lovely bits of kit), a 12V starter...
@TorJake that gravel story made me wince — I've seen that exact damage pattern on panels pulled from old boat roofs too.
One thing worth adding: grab a cheap clamp meter and test the Isc...
Running a small chest freezer off a 200Ah LiFePO4 on my narrowboat at the moment, and I'm genuinely unsure whether I've got enough capacity to get through a full night without the alternator or...
Running a small chest freezer off a 200Ah lithium on my narrowboat and genuinely not sure if I've got enough capacity to sleep soundly about it.
The freezer is a Subcold 60L — rated at around 45W...
Had something eerily similar happen on my narrowboat setup last autumn, and it took me an embarrassingly long time to track down the culprit.
My MultiPlus-II 48/3000 started behaving like a...
