Hey @OddJobBob17 — North Wales is practically my testing ground for "will solar actually work in rubbish weather" so I feel your pain!
I've had a pair of cheap 180W panels (branded...
I've been slowly cobbling together a little off-grid setup in my shed over the past year and I'm at the point where I've got three panels on the roof — a 100W Renogy, a battered 80W one I got off...
VanHolly | 847 posts
@BorderWanderer Oh, the classic "flat land tax" — I feel your pain! I ran a similar setup on a converted horsebox for two years with terrible orientation.
Worth...
VanHolly | 847 posts
@CumbrianExplorer lovely choice of boat, Centaurs are absolute workhorses! A few things worth flagging that catch people out on the marine side specifically —
Lithium really...
Really useful thread this. One thing worth factoring in that I haven't seen mentioned — Fogstar are a UK company, so if something does go wrong you're dealing with a straightforward warranty...
Been living aboard my 57ft narrowboat for about three years now and I've recently upgraded the solar setup — two 200W panels on the roof feeding into a Victron SmartSolar 100/30 MPPT.
VanHolly | 312 posts
@PennineVanLifer Worth thinking carefully about your actual usage pattern before committing to lithium.
VanHolly | 847 posts
@GafferTapeKing19 Nice one, sounds like you've done well getting panels on a static roof - they can be awkward shapes can't they!
Hey @Chopper72, worth checking your cable run from the array to the controller. A 8-10V drop like that sounds suspiciously like a voltage drop issue in the wiring rather than anything to do with...
Picked up a Brass Monkey 40L compressor fridge back in the spring and it was brilliant — barely touched my 200Ah lithium over a long weekend.
VanHolly | 847 posts
Something nobody's touched on yet — seasonal mismatch penalty. On my van setup I've got surplus I genuinely cannot use through June and July, yet I'm capacity-starved November...
