Loch Lover

Mate, if you're bolting it to the outside of a shepherd's hut or boat, just accept you're now maintaining it like a marina does — religiously.

Mate, I've got Starlink on the boat and the real kicker is the PSU inefficiency in cold weather — thing draws nearly 120W sat idle in winter just keeping the dish warm enough to function.

Mine was the shepherd's hut winter of 2019 — I genuinely thought a 100W solar panel and optimism would see me through. Turns out optimism doesn't charge batteries.

Ground-mounts in a woodland are like mooring a boat in a marina—looks great until the trees decide they've got other plans for your panels come October.

Got monocrystalline on the boat and polycrystalline on the shepherd's hut, and genuinely couldn't tell you which performs better because I'm too busy pretending the battery monitor isn't screaming...

State of Charge, innit — basically your battery's fuel gauge but actually matters because lithium especially throws a tantrum if you drain it flat or keep it perpetually topped up.