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Apparenly no benefit at all. The only thing I will change is wire solar directly to the house battery. I just checked this morning and...

Freshly brewed coffee, freshly baked bread and sizzling bacon, all overlaying the faint aroma of diesel and drying foulies. Oh, and wet dog.

If you don't suffer the voltage drop, there's isn't really any point.

Good question. I've had a look at the Victron kit suggested. It doesn't look as though there's anything to be gained by ditching the...

I'm thinking of replacing the split charge diode pack with a VSR. My charging sources are 60W solar (via a charge controller), a 15A...

How thick is the hull? The recommended 'grind back' ratio is 12:1. That's 12x the hull thickness NOT the size of the hole left after...

Worth noting, if you have a Chinese Racor clone the Racor vacuum gauge doesn’t fit. Different thread.

I have one fitted on my boat. It works, as it indicated an increase in suction pressure after a very lumpy passage from the Clyde to...

No that is for trips by road, when you take a trunk road

My MC-612 Balmar regulator failed in a slightly different manner; no output from the alternator. My 'get me home fix', as suggested by...

We should go back to Leagues. Makes an Atlantic crossing less intimidating as it's only around 800 Leagues rather than 2,400 miles (give...

The answer is because counting started on fingers and the Sumerians formalised writing in cuneiform on clay tablets so it caught on...