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Use it as a donut mould.

What is your system Lucky? I was thinking of going to one liquid fuel only (diesel) all else electric on board. Looking at the 48V...

Get the lightest engine you can. I have never found speed and power to be a requirement for a tender. The smallest lightest engine...

The typical configuration (one that is not shown in your schematic) is that coming from the house battery (you are using one of your...

Well the original circuit diagram is often not updated to include current setup. Since the OP talked about 1/2/B switches and the only...

The engine is designed to sit on a cradle on a table in a factory. When installed there will be all kinds of complications. In my...

You don’t necessarily need to seal it off. You can make bilge compartments with holes between that allow fluids to drain to the lowest...

I presumed the 1/2/B switches as it is schematically not shown, probably for simplicity.

If wired as per diagram then no. The switch only connects the batteries rather than the engine so you still need to have the second...

I have never had my VSR allow voltage on the house bank to drop sufficiently to affect a plotter. When combined with the parallel...

Obviously not sure how effective blades, spikes etc would be.but I would argue that it is not done in an attempt to injure them. It is...

Particularly if offshore, given that they appear to attack rudders, I would make provision for getting good access to the rudder stock...

There are a number of VHF solutions with headsets and noise cancelling which can be useful for the hard of hearing. For those with no...

When designing a system it is always best to take the human element out of safety critical parts. If you provide a switch it is only a...

Well, there are unswitched loads etc that should be before the main switch. Eg bilge pumps etc. these are the things people attach...