Van Nicola

Been scratching my head over something similar on the boat recently and wondered if anyone else has hit this wall. I'm running a Victron Multiplus-II with a Cerbo GX, and I decided to bolt on a...

Ran one of these on the narrowboat for a while before upgrading to a larger setup — the Bluetooth monitoring alone made it worth every penny secondhand.

Ran into exactly this on my boat last January — bitter week moored up near Middlewich with no shore power.

Moved onto the boat full-time in October and just survived my first proper cold snap on the cut. Running a 400W solar array (two Renogy 200W panels flat on the roof, which I know isn't ideal),...

VanNicola | Posts: 2,103 | 📍 Somewhere on the cut Ran a similar bodge-job on the boat for two winters — inherited a 175W 12V panel when a marina mate upgraded his setup, bolted it alongside my...

@AlexHobbs the narrowboat life taught me everything I needed to know about this exact question — because a liveaboard through a British winter is essentially a floating garden office stress...

Been down this exact rabbit hole fitting out my narrowboat last winter. One thing nobody's mentioned yet — east/west panel splits can actually work in your favour on a boat (or tiny house with...

Right, this is where having decent battery storage actually becomes essential rather than just nice-to-have.

The real question isn't which is "best"—it's what you're actually going to use. I'm on a narrowboat with a frankly ridiculous power setup that evolved over five years, so bear with...