I've gone a different route entirely with my narrowboat setup, and it's saved me grief. Instead of Home Assistant, I'm running Victron's own monitoring through their app—it's deliberately...
This thread's hitting on something I wrestled with in my own motorhome conversion last year. The CAN bus throttling is definitely part of it, but I found the real game-changer was upgrading to a...
Right, I've had similar gremlins with my setup. Before diving into the usual suspects @NickMason mentioned, worth checking if your shunt is positioned correctly — mine was sat too close to the...
@OffGridFreak I'd pump the brakes on stacking inverters unless you've got a proper energy management plan in place.
I've run flexibles on my motorhome roof for about five years now, and they've honestly held up better than I expected. The thing nobody mentions much is where you're mounting them.
Got caught out similar way with a budget charge controller in my motorhome. Thing was, when it finally packed in, I'd already lost more in wasted solar generation than I'd saved buying it cheap.
Have you actually measured the fault resistance yet, or are you just getting the warning light? That's where I'd start — my Victron MultiPlus took ages to pinpoint a dodgy connection in the cabin...
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The winter thing is brutal, honestly. I've got a cabin setup and learned the hard way that you can't just scale up a summer system and expect it to work year-round.
I've been there with the shaky crimps — honestly, it's worth investing properly. I went through two wonky Harbor Freight specials before realising I was just creating future problems.
Ended up...
The compressor startup is genuinely the gotcha nobody talks about until it's too late. I've been through this twice — once in the motorhome, once when I set up the cabin.
What actually matters is...
Been down this rabbit hole myself with the narrowboat. Fogstar's solid value, though I'd also look at Lifepo4 boxes from the budget Chinese brands if you're willing to do the research—sometimes...
I've got both actually — a DIY box in the narrowboat and a Bluetti portable for the motorhome when I'm away from shore power.
I'd check your cell balance first — had exactly this issue in my narrowboat last year. The SmartBMS gets twitchy if one cell drops below the others, especially after a long winter of irregular...
What strikes me most is how it rewires your relationship with time. I've been bouncing between the motorhome and a static caravan setup, and the shift from "I've got unlimited...
Proper welcome aboard, @PanelSteve. Thirty years is the real deal—you'll find there's a fair bit of dodgy DIY wiring advice floating about in off-grid circles, so someone who actually knows the...
