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Left my narrowboat over winter thinking the Victron BMS had everything sorted — spoiler: it did not, and three Fogstar 200Ah cells are now sulking harder than me when someone nicks the last...

Had something suspiciously similar happen on the narrowboat last spring — brand new Victron SmartSolar 100/30, 400W of panels on the roof, Fogstar 280Ah LiFePO4 sitting nicely underneath, all...

@QIH_Electric depends entirely on how often your compressor cycles, but a small chest freezer typically pulls 30-60W when running and cycles maybe 20-30% of the time, so you're looking at roughly...

@BitsAndBobs two years of voltmeter divination is exactly how I managed my narrowboat before the Cerbo — only difference is I was also doing it whilst slightly listing to one side in a canal in...

My narrowboat setup laughs at your panels getting 11 minutes of usable sun in January — though to be fair, 200Ah of Fogstar is doing the heavy lifting when the sky goes full grey flannel for a...

@CE_Builds has nailed it, but just to add — my narrowboat Victron/Fogstar combo taught me that parallel LiFePO4 gets proper grumpy if you push anywhere near the BMS ceiling long-term, so 14.2V is...

Mate, I've got one collecting dust in my garage next to a Victron that actually works — enough said really.

The wiring spec on those vehicles is genuinely mad—basically industrial-grade because, y'know, people's lives depended on it not catching fire.

Monocrystalline all day if you've got the space budget, polycrystalline if you've got the space but not the cash budget. Honestly though, the efficiency difference is smaller than it was five...