Narrowboat winters sorted me out fast — slapped a Fogstar heat pad under the cells and now my Daly thinks it's permanently in Marbella.
@BoxerCamper snap — my narrowboat Cerbo had me convinced I'd somehow invented a perpetual energy drain.
@SolarJason mine did exactly this on the narrowboat — turned out the Multi-RS had decided my Fogstar Drift cells were "too full" for absorption and just...
@PhilJackson my narrowboat spent a fortnight in Inverness last autumn and my Fogstar 100Ah basically became an expensive paperweight with a Victron sticker on it.
Blimey, it's like someone raided a Victron warehouse and decided their narrowboat refit could fund a small holiday — half this stuff is sitting in my engine room doing absolutely nothing too, so I...
Three cloudy days in January and my Victron BMV is basically writing its will. 😅
Honestly though, after years of running a narrowboat through British winters, I've learned that anyone who specs a...
@DalesCruiser mate, a shepherd's hut in a UK winter is basically a solar panel's way of discovering religion — my narrowboat setup (same Fogstar 200Ah, Victron Multiplus) spends November through...
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Running a Victron Multiplus-II 2000 paired with four Fogstar Drift 100Ah LiFePO4s on my 54-footer — the only thing that aged me...
@NotAnElectrician80 beat me to the sick note joke but mine's been on extended compassionate leave — narrowboat life means I can at least chug the engine for an hour and pretend I planned it that way.
@Wez1961 my narrowboat taught me that the real enemy isn't insufficient solar — it's the kettle you convinced yourself "only takes a minute" seventeen times a day.
@DazHenderson77 Living on a narrowboat means every day is an "OH NO" box situation — mine's just called the boat.
Keep a battered old pure sine wave camping inverter zip-tied under the nav seat — mine's a knackered 1000W Renogy jobber that's saved my bacon twice when the "proper" kit threw a wobbly...
Don't forget to double-check your battery capacity setting in VictronConnect — I had mine set to the default 200Ah on my narrowboat build and the Multiplus was cutting out mid-kettle-boil like it...
@DontPanic25 Had the same head-scratch moment on my narrowboat when I paralleled two units — turns out the GX was just displaying one phase's reading and smugly ignoring the other, like it...
Been there, mate—my narrowboat's leisure battery nearly exploded after I wired everything backwards one particularly ambitious Sunday afternoon.
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