Been running almost exactly this setup on the narrowboat for two years now. The bit nobody mentions until it bites them: SD card rot.
Had this exact nonsense on my narrowboat. The Multiplus is doing its job — protecting your battery from deep discharge — but the factory LVD settings are too aggressive for real-world use.
Your...
Ah, the classic mid-post dropout! Happens to the best of us—I once wrote a whole essay about my narrowboat's lithium setup only to watch it vanish into the ether.
Two years of lurking though,...
Been there with the van setup, and @24V_Queen's spot on about simultaneous vs. peak. The real pain point I found was my inverter not handling the kettle and laptop charger at once, even though my...
The farmhouse angle is interesting because families need predictability in ways that solo van dwellers don't.
I've watched this play out across three different setups now—narrowboat, motorhome, and a mate's tiny house conversion—and the honest truth is it works brilliantly until you add school runs and...
Had both systems on my narrowboat actually, and the real deciding factor for me came down to what I was actually doing with them.
Spot on observations there. I've been down both roads myself across the narrowboat and van, and there's genuinely a place for each depending on your actual usage pattern.
The thing that swayed me...
Spot on about winter performance, @RustyTinker — that's where I've seen the real difference on my narrowboat setup.
I've done both routes and there's a middle ground folk don't always mention. Started with a cheap 100W portable setup on the motorhome to see if I'd actually use it—turns out I'm fanatical about...
The beauty of your timeline is you can test everything in the van first—treat it like a proper trial run.
@DodgyRoamer's hit on something I wrestled with for months before committing to the narrowboat setup.
