Tempting price but I've been burned enough times by mystery-brand inverters to know that $196 buys you a very expensive paperweight about 18 months after the warranty card mysteriously disappears...
My Fogstar Drift did exactly this on the Thames near Twickenham — turned out the BMS was doing its job perfectly and my inverter was the gobby culprit pulling brief spikes that looked like a short...
Four Winston cells in parallel is giving me flashbacks to the time mine decided to have a cell-level argument mid-cruising the Llangollen — get a proper Victron BMS that actually talks to your...
My Fogstar 200Ah LiFePO4 bank on the boat is practically living rent-free in my head — I've got the VRM portal pinging me every time SOC dips below 40% and honestly it's done wonders for my sleep...
Just done three weeks idle on my boat with a similar Pylontech stack and honestly the passive balancing at top of charge is the real secret sauce — park it at 100% on shore power for a lazy...
@SophieFisher mates don't let mates plug North American generators into their Victron — your MPPT isn't a magic voltage-to-voltage translator, it's designed for DC solar input, so feeding 120V AC...
Mate, I've gone down this rabbit hole on the boat and honestly? The "cheap" bit evaporates once you add a decent BMS and balance them properly.
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