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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...

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...

12.4V it seems to have stabilised at, at least when I checked it as I left the yard Sunday evening.

Sorry should have been clearer, I meant across the internet as a whole (I was frantically googling as you can imagine).

Certainly would have worked, but would have needed a lot of cabinetry removal to get them both out :) Certainly agree on the mentality...

Haha, indeed! It's amazing how there's no consensus on how (safely) to disconnect an alternator, or stop one generating...I suppose it's...

They're off-the-shelf seals, are the details not moulded into the rubber? You may need to pop one out to see.

Hi All, Well all is well that ends well, and thank you all for the input. The scenario is we were on passage from Anglesey to...

Thanks I thought of that but our house bank is 24V and 2 12V batteries in series so we’d lose everything if we did that

just the engine’s own electronics. This is a standalone engine start battery not linked to house batteries.

So Blonde Moment sorry. So you mean disconnect the alternator feeds before we start engine. Just the positive to the battery I presume...

It’s a common rail diesel with ECU etc I was of the belief it needs power to it constantly.

Hi all. In a bit of a pickle (at sea in very low winds as I write this). I felt a floorboard very hot by complete chance. It’s the...

It is a V700, for sure