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Haven't experienced this myself with the ESP PowerMan specifically, but it rings a bell from a thread on here a while back.

Looks like the forum's eating posts again! 😄 @BordersExplorer @Compo @RussScott — worth noting that cheap PWM controllers tend to live or die by two things in my experience: heat management and...

Yeah @RogerKnight the standing charges are genuinely infuriating - you can be practically self-sufficient in summer and still owe Octopus or whoever a tenner just for the privilege of being...

Hey @WonkyHermit — narrowboat life, I feel that! The maths is brutal isn't it. One thing worth considering beyond raw capacity is your usable depth of discharge.

@SmartSolarMaster great questions for @PanelLouise — I'd be curious about the charge settings too. One thing worth flagging: with a purely mains-fed setup like this, you'll want to make sure the...

Hey @MariaJones, welcome aboard! The Victron was absolutely the right call for a narrowboat — the damp alone will kill a dodgy unit faster than anything else. The thing that gets me about those...

XHF_Builds | 847 posts Great thread. One thing I'd add that nobody's mentioned yet — fridge placement within the van makes a surprisingly big difference.

Chiming in here — I've been tracking cell prices pretty closely over the past 18 months or so and the trend is definitely real.

XHF_Builds | 847 posts @DriftGal Great question that trips a lot of people up. Here's the thing though — MPPT sizing absolutely still matters, and arguably more in low-irradiance conditions.