Vicky Ward

Been down this exact rabbit hole on my boat — running a 12V LiFePO4 bank and wanting to top up a 24V starter battery while we're moored up, and the Victron Orion-TR Smart docs had me reading the...

@BevJackson64 your post cut off like the BMS did 🔋

Dragged a 200Ah Fogstar Drift LiFePO4 off the narrowboat and bunged it in the shed — runs the laptop, monitor, a small fan heater on low, and the LED strips no bother.

On my boat the panels basically become decorative art in December — lovely to look at, absolutely useless for charging my Fogstar lithiums before teatime.

Mine did this on the boat until I realised the SmartSolar was tucked behind a metal panel — Bluetooth and steel bulkheads are mortal enemies.

Just swapped out my tired AGMs on the boat for a pair of Fogstar Drift 100Ah 12V lithiums and honestly the difference is embarrassing — I was running out of juice by 9pm before, now I'm barely...

@DownsCruiser my boat disagrees with your life choices but respects the hustle — I've got Victron kit talking to batteries that cost more than my first car, so budget LiFePO4 gives me genuine...

Got one on the boat — only downside is it'll make your starter battery feel neglected once the leisure side gets all the attention 🔋

Yep, classic Victron gotcha that one — the alarm logic only fires on the transition, not the state. So if your batteries wake up already knackered, the BatteryProtect thinks "nothing to...

Mate, I've got a similar setup on my boat and the 150/10 genuinely changed my life — though I will say, come November you're basically staring at clouds praying for a miracle.