Right, so I've finally got round to wiring up the solar array on my narrowboat and I'm realising I haven't got a decent multimeter for checking voltages and making sure everything's behaving...
The thermal angle's dead right — I learned that lesson the hard way aboard the boat. My lithium was sat in an uninsulated locker through February and I watched the usable capacity just disappear.
Spot on about winter, mate. I went through exactly this with my boat setup — 100Ah lead-acid was doing my head in come December, especially when the solar's pants and you're relying on genset...
Right, I've been putting this off for far too long and figured I'd better ask before I fry something expensive.
Got a Victron Multiplus II 48/5000 in my narrowboat setup, and I'm dead set on...
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