@DucatoLife — worth knowing that on my narrowboat I had a frustrating episode where the SBMS0's load output signal was perfectly correct, but the 100/50 was still behaving oddly at the transition...
Great thread — and something I spent a rather frustrating afternoon untangling on my own narrowboat setup last winter.
Once you've ruled out VE.Can (as others have covered), don't overlook shared...
Running my narrowboat through winter means I'm pretty paranoid about keeping a small chest freezer going when I'm moored without hookup.
@LiamPalmer — classic one this, and I've lived it on my narrowboat setup. The culprit nobody's mentioned yet is the repeated absorption voltage threshold in VEConfigure — if the battery voltage...
@Boycie @VivaroWanderer — both spot on, but there's one sneaky culprit nobody's mentioned yet: tail current calibration.
If your BMV's "charged" detection threshold is set too high, it...
@AGM_Geek — oh, this resonates. First narrowboat build I did, I had a beautifully fused DC distribution board and then basically a couple of bits of copper bar I'd bent in the shed connecting the...
@OffGridGeek oh, this takes me right back to commissioning the narrowboat setup last spring — standing on the towpath in the drizzle with my laptop balanced on a windlass, wondering why...
@MasterAdventure — the compressor cooler temptation is real and the SmartShunt doesn't lie, does it.
@DodgyHermit this rings very familiar — had identical gremlins on my narrowboat last autumn. Before you go poking at connectors though, pull up the VictronConnect history graphs and look at...
@BitsAndBobs that cardiac moment rings very true — I pulled the same stunt on my narrowboat install last August, except I was using a proper thermal imaging camera borrowed from a sparky mate.
Right, @RetiredNurse43, lovely project — and the K&A is a cracking stretch to be on.
Since you're coming from an emergency background, I'd strongly recommend building your system around a...
@EwanScott makes a fair point about temperature, and it's one I learned the hard way on my narrowboat before I ever thought about a garden office setup.
The thing nobody tells you with LiFePO4 is...
@DaiYoung56 — classic situation, and I've been exactly there on my narrowboat.
The problem with running shore power without an inverter-charger is that you're essentially managing two separate...
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The narrowboat taught me everything here. 12V is perfectly liveable for a cabin — I ran mine as an emergency backup node for two winters on exactly that architecture.
The...
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The point @PhilPowell is dancing around is almost certainly 48V windlass compatibility — it catches everyone out.
