Recent content by sailor211

Thanks for all the input, it has been useful in solififying my thoughts. I believed that the only change I made was the increased battery bank. I have obviously made another change to allow the +ve to be connected. The start battery is good, being new and bigger than proviously. (I has to buy...

I will look carefully, I think there is only two wires to the engine start battery, but the -ve are connected. Somewhere something is joining the two banks. Thanks

I had not thought of this so will look at the VSR and solar connection.

This i will look at. I did not think i had changed anything but obviously have.

I had a dedicated engine start battery and two 60AH service batteries. Each battery has its own switch. As two 60 AH batteries is too little I have added two 110V batteries making the house battery capacity 340 Ah. Engine battery is separate with its own seitch, but all neutrals 0V are...

Portsmouth looked high a d it was about 0.5 above predicted. Not sure why though, interested to know why also.

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Lewmar 16 winch. Not self tailing, ideally post1990 vintage.

The report appear to be very inaccurate. Neils own post shows all electrics dead. But small amount of main raised and small foresail. Making some headway but depends on wind. trackers obviously stopped transmission. What would have helped would have been manual start on engine. I’ve not had...

Still use mine. Do lots of planning etc. I just enter 3 points of my choice to fix the scale. I also sail from the Solent to Plymouth hardly looking at a chart. Just keep it he land away to starboard ?

I mislead you the unit was cold and frozen, I mislead you. The unit was frozen but over a day it thawed, all ice now gone. it is ambiant temp. crimps look good and fuse has been replaced incase there was high resistance there. model is Isotherm 3201 ASU

I have 13V at the feed on the upper two cables. do you know what there should be at the motor connections? the controller is described as Red ASU Control Box by isotherm

We have a isotherm fridge unit with cooling plate. This has been working well and run for days on end over the past week or so more work than it has done in a couple of years with COVID etc. It stopped a couple of days ago. The Cooling plate was frozen but did not remain cold. The indicator...

When the rigging is on the deck, a small handheld set of cutters to remove the split pins then knock the cotter pins through. I have done this it worked for me.

My thoughts I have a big powered bilge pump. Direct to battery. If I hit something I should start the engine immediately to keep the power. This gives you two hands free to sort out the leak. If you can keep oxygen getting to it builders foam works . Did this on a deck where the shroud pulled...