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Yes, you need two antennas, maybe it will work with a splitter. I have mounted my AIS antenna on the pushpit and it works fine. The...

I would not bother hardening but if you did just heat carefully to light cherry and quench it oil, will also blue the steel

When I fitted my Chinese copy I replaced all the o rings just to make sure and only use genuine filters, never had any issues with leaks etc

Boatie…tried it last year and found it really useful.

12 months ago I built a 24v 280Ah lithium battery (8x280Ah cells). This was to replace our 4xTrojan 105s (225Ah @24v). Since swapping...

I also think that over the last year a lot of the initial stuff like which buss bars to use, compression or not, top and bottom...

When I run it after fitting it did not get very warm at all. With the reported higher efficiency it should not get as hot as others...

We’ve just fitted the new Victron 50amp unit, works very well and so easy to set up

Look at it the other way, your lithium will always have at least as many Ah as the old lead but with way more headroom for charge. It...

The cost can be kept manageable with careful planning, as I’ve updated electrical stuff over the last 4 yrs I’ve made sure all is to be...

Depends. Not as black & white as you make it sound. If you have victron smartshunt & solar regulators & mains charger which has LiFePo4...

Not sure how you can easily do this with 4 x 3.6 v in 4S battery packs and bms for each battery

Just seen on off grid garage Andy has the latest EVE 304Ah cells,the price also seems to be dropping, looks like 8 off these may have to...

Victron Argofet battery isolator, 100amp 2 output, very low loss battery isolator for two battery banks, used to isolate starter and...

I’ve found that planning the upgrade over time and making sure all charging sources have good lipofe4 profiles with adjustments as...