WheresMeWires

@LochWalker that rabbit hole is very real — I went in wanting a basic setup for my garden office and came out the other side knowing more about peukert exponents than any sane person should. One...

The kettle inrush thing gets everyone initially, but honestly it's not the full picture here. Yes, you'll see 3-4kW spikes on a decent kettle, but that's milliseconds.

The seasonal variation catches most people out too. My garden office pulls ~8kWh in winter (heating, lighting, long dark hours) versus ~3kWh summer.

That facilities background is genuinely gold for this stuff, @BurnWalker. I came from the other end—IT infrastructure—so I was comfortable with monitoring systems and redundancy planning, but I...

The usable capacity point @DODGuy's raised is spot-on, and it's where the maths gets properly interesting.

The real constraint you haven't mentioned yet is your roof space and wiring runs. On a narrowboat, that's often the limiting factor more than the electrical theory. Series config works brilliantly...