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No, it doesn't sound insane to me. Both my husband and my daughter would be lost without dual, though smaller, monitors. Our daughter started a trend at her new company, when one of her conditions of hire was dual big monitors, three years ago. Now, all her department has them. Me, I'm retired. I can work from a largish phone.

The small dinette is a little less than 24 x 24. If you put it there, you'll block a lot of the window. And, in not sure where you could mount it I'd look at a wall mount in the corner, over the bed, especially with a curve screen. With a three way adustable mount, so you can bring it closer. This is a topic you should discuss with your rep. How heavy is 5he monitor,? Can you also use it to stream tv?

And, @Susan Huff, so many of our tech/mechanical problems over the years have really been user issues. I'm not embarrassed to say so. Every new system is a learning curve. My learning highway probably looks like the dragon's tail ride, lol. Today, Paul and I installed a Phyn water leak sensor system for the house. His plumbing was flawless. The tech side was much more complicated. Sometimes, there are little details missing in the manual, or app instructions. I went through the app a dozen times, including faq several times, and then spent an hour on the phone with two great techs in California. Everything is working now. If I had turned on location on my android phone, and paired to the 2. 4 net, instead of the 5 band, it would have saved 45 minutes ... (that bit of info is not in the instructions, anywhere.)⁹ Tech is great. When it works , and we understand it. And, have clear instructions. Even then, I can manage to mess something up, sometimes.

On the boat, we leave the inverter turned off unless we're actually using it. But, our inverter on the boat is a xantrex, not victron, sadly. I have read about the Victron shutting down when the batteries are full, and not restarting. But, we have not really watched for it in the boat. I thought that was an older, resolved problem? Nor, do we usually use much power on the sailboat. Something to watch for when/if we install the danfoss backup system to the engine driven cold plate refrigeration. Our delight is that we have not had to plug in the boat to shore power, in a year . And, when the alternator failed again in March, in a tricky situation, the batteries were still fully charged, with solar. 😁 The bluesky algorithms have never let me down to the point you experienced in your recent trip. But, if the weather is cloudy/low sun for string of days, they're def inaccurate, and we also watch the seelevel monitor, and sometimes take readings straight from our 2 group 27 batteries, with a meter. Unlike you, we don't have a lot of leeway, with just two 105 ah agm batteries. And, all the readings are somewhat inaccurate with agm , unsettled batteries, anyway. It can be really frustrating. Looks like yours reset too, with a full charge, as ours do with the bluesky.

I truly didn't realize just how much impact tropical storms had, so far inland, until we started spending so much time in North Carolina. We are deeply saddened by the campground tragedy.

I've been watching for another sale on the Viking jump pack. It's $69, ($15 off )through 12/3/20. Back in stock in my store next week. Hf is taking pre-orders.

Lots, obviously! Thanks! I've never seen thus story before. Quite, er, fascinating..

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Like this? 😛

I belong to several closed fb groups. On all of them, the mods do a great job. Like you, kountrykamper. There is still the "tracking" that fb corporate has, as part of its business plan, that keeps many of us from being very active on fb.

mmm. Snow. Btw, all is good today, post eta, in my county. Patriot, and thise north, I hope you did ok, too.

That's a good suggestion to look at when we install our new panels and controller this winter, Steve. Thanks. I really don't remember much about the wiring. The interesting thing is, our bluesky returns to normal quickly, "resetting itself" as soon as soon battery capacity reaches 100 per cent. Sometimes it will jump from a 78 per cent reading to 100 with a short time on shore power, or full sun. We know it's higher than 78 from meter checks. And Susan, most of the time we charge solely on the fixed solar. With good sun, it's entirely reliable. Oliver doesn't use Blue Sky anymore, anyway, but we actually really like it. We have Victron on the boat pv system.

Interesting. Blue sky gives us strange readings , too. Seems like all these systems run on algorithms, as opposed to true. I get the worst monitor info if we have any sort of auxiliary power... portable solar, or 110.

1 to 3 am. ETA. we just lost power. The tesla battery took over main functions.

This late in the season, it can't gather that much energy. It's a lot of wet, and wind.

and, my brother in Minnesota had 10 inches of wet, heavy snow last night. Yuk.

This is a crazy, late season storm. Always tough to predict, that's why the spaghetti models have been so inaccurate. Just got off the phone with a friend in West Palm Beach. It gave them issues earlier this week. Still likely to be a problem. It's big, and varies in power and path, typical of late season storms. My heart goes out to the island communities, like Cuba. They've had impact twice, from the same storm. And, lesser structures/building codes. We've had Easterlies all day, pretty much. Clocking around, now, more southerly, as the storm approaches. Swirligig time for a few hours. At least the tide is with us, this time. I think.

We have fiberglass sinks, kitchen and bath, in our 2008. We don't have a lot of counterspace. I use a dishpan. So far, so good. Only 13 years in

I spend 95 per cent of my time, here. I'll look at joining, but I know nothing about mewe

Correct me if I'm wrong, but tbe fibergranite is another layer, that can be added later?

So, here in sw Florida, it's windy, and rainy. Storm to follow...

We run our ac once or twice a year, in the driveway, to make sure it still works. In 13 seasons, we've rarely used it camping. We follow the cool air.

I will say, if your main objective for power is ac, just get the solar package. Maybe a smaller genset that runs the ac, or, if you can handle the weight, or have a ramp, use what you have. I think (personally), the lithium package needs another panel or two, to make it worthwhile. My opinion, and I don't (yet) have lithium.

I feel the same about our big Yamaha. Thank goodness for wheels, and thank goodness for power during the hurricanes. I just don't ever envision hauling it around.

Let's keep our fingers crossed for next year