Home
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
Latest activity
Members
Current visitors
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Current visitors
Menu
Log in
Register
Navigation
Install the app
Install
More options
Contact us
Close Menu
Home
Members
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
S
sailorbenji
Active member
Joined
20 Oct 2011
Last seen
Wednesday at 14:25
Messages
171
Reaction score
58
Points
28
Find
Find content
Find all content by sailorbenji
Find all threads by sailorbenji
Latest activity
Postings
About
S
sailorbenji
replied to the thread
Windlass Failure
.
It's stainless 316 from memory of dissecting one of these in the past. I much prefer the ones where the whole gypsy cap acts as the...
Tuesday at 11:11
S
sailorbenji
reacted to
VicS's post
in the thread
Calcification of waste pipes causes?
with
Like
.
Basically caused by not flushing adequately combined with the high "hardness" of sea water. Bacteria in the seawater or the "waste" act...
13 Sep 2024
S
sailorbenji
replied to the thread
Calcification of waste pipes causes?
.
My understanding also is that it is some sort of reaction between urea and seawater, so yes basically it comes from urine not being...
13 Sep 2024
S
sailorbenji
reacted to
PaulRainbow's post
in the thread
Bit of a pickle - bad battery
with
Like
.
Be careful what you read on here, some is complete drivel.
12 Sep 2024
S
sailorbenji
replied to the thread
Bit of a pickle - bad battery
.
This is what we use, maybe there's a better option out there, all ears...
12 Sep 2024
S
sailorbenji
replied to the thread
Bit of a pickle - bad battery
.
The boat is now in Silvers, and the battery voltage (outside of the boat now) dropped below 12V, so it's pretty clear the battery...
11 Sep 2024
S
sailorbenji
replied to the thread
Bit of a pickle - bad battery
.
The battery is 4 years old, but I suspect it's been abused. I believe it failed, as I wrote in an earlier post, because possibly the...
11 Sep 2024
S
sailorbenji
replied to the thread
Bit of a pickle - bad battery
.
Sounds like a very reasonable explanation of what happened to me, yes. The last measurement I took off it was 12.3V I think, but it was...
11 Sep 2024
S
sailorbenji
replied to the thread
Bit of a pickle - bad battery
.
Possibly right, but then so do we, so the OPs argument there is all boat systems are over-complicated...hard to argue with that! Thanks...
11 Sep 2024
S
sailorbenji
replied to the thread
Bit of a pickle - bad battery
.
Indeed, it seems way too high, if you read post above, once we'd run a while, the alternator seemed to be outputting between 2-3A which...
11 Sep 2024
S
sailorbenji
replied to the thread
Bit of a pickle - bad battery
.
I also can't really explain this, of course it was a concern of mine once I'd jury-rigged the engine to 1/2 of our 24V bank. However...
11 Sep 2024
S
sailorbenji
replied to the thread
Bit of a pickle - bad battery
.
Not sure why you doubt something that I since explained to be fact. The battery is 100% the fundamental cause of the problem. There's...
11 Sep 2024
S
sailorbenji
replied to the thread
Bit of a pickle - bad battery
.
12.4V it seems to have stabilised at, at least when I checked it as I left the yard Sunday evening.
10 Sep 2024
S
sailorbenji
replied to the thread
Bit of a pickle - bad battery
.
Sorry should have been clearer, I meant across the internet as a whole (I was frantically googling as you can imagine).
10 Sep 2024
S
sailorbenji
replied to the thread
Bit of a pickle - bad battery
.
Certainly would have worked, but would have needed a lot of cabinetry removal to get them both out :) Certainly agree on the mentality...
10 Sep 2024
Loading…
Loading…
Home
Members
Top