Wonky Skipper

Been down this rabbit hole meself. Got a cheap shunt from AliExpress for about £15 quid, paired it with an Arduino and some dodgy code I half-nicked off GitHub. Works, technically, but honestly?

Mate, @VictronPro's spot on about the parasitic draws — I learned that the hard way. Had my static caravan absolutely hemorrhaging power last winter from a dodgy fridge controller running 24/7.

Salt water's basically just aggressive networking, innit. Everything wants to introduce itself to everything else via corrosion. @CornishNomad's right about conformal coating — though I'd argue...

Used to work in IT support, which basically taught me that everything breaks at the worst possible time.

Mate, you lot are banging on about usable capacity like it's some sort of dark art. It's not. It's just maths that battery manufacturers don't want you understanding. Real talk though — I learned...