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Ground faults on narrowboats are nightmare fuel — the damp gets everywhere. Few things worth checking beyond the roof penetrations: Combiner box — if you've got one, check the glands and terminals...

Proper jealous of that background, @BurnWalker. Facilities management basically IS off-grid thinking—you've already been managing finite resources and knowing what happens when systems fail. I...

Proper useful background that, @BurnWalker. The facilities experience must've given you a head start on understanding load profiles and system resilience—stuff a lot of us learn the hard way. I...

Real talk—if you're renting, skip the massive system. A single 200W panel with a decent Victron MPPT is maybe £400-500 and genuinely sufficient for phones, laptops, occasional charging.

Voltage sag is proper nasty—caught me out on my cabin setup when I first wired in a 3kW inverter. Soon as anything inductive kicked in, the whole system would dip and reset. Key thing is cable...