Blimey, an EG4 on a UK forum is rarer than finding a parking spot in central London — someone's either upgrading to a Victron setup or finally admitted the rack doesn't fit in their narrowboat...
@GeoffHenderson80 snap — narrowboat here too, and mine sorted itself once I realised the engine room gets properly tropical once you've been chugging along the Grand Union for four hours, thermal...
@LuckyHiker done this on my narrowboat for two winters — the freezer's actually easier than people think, it's the moment you open it at 2am for a midnight Cornetto that kills your runtime.
Ran a Fogstar 100Ah on my narrowboat for two summers trying to power a 12V compressor fridge overnight — spoiler: the fridge won.
Float at 13.5V or your cells will be cooking on a slow hob for eternity — my Fogstar 100Ah on the narrowboat took six months of abuse before I figured that one out.
@ExPostie and @BlownFuse have covered the earth side nicely — just want to add that on my narrowboat I ran the Orion XS earth directly to the negative busbar rather than chasing back to the...
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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WonkyHermit | 1,204 posts | 🔋 Narrowboat & Tiny House Chaos
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.
