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They are open, flooded batteries. The 13.8V float setting is too high.

Thanks for your tips. I charged them one at a time and two of the three domestic batteries caused the CO alarm sitting on top of the...

I remember the good old days when you could tap the number out on the handset switch at the top and listen to "Dial A Disc" for free :cool:

Back on the boat now. Put the CO detector on top of the batteries (bottom of cabin wardrobe) and turned the charger on. It went into...

it is quite common on this sort of boat to take the house circuits from one of the engine batteries and that shows clearly in the schematic.

And it shows loads only connected via the port engine. The schematic leaves a lot to be desired and can't be used for fault finding.

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

I emailed them to suggest the present system wasn't robust nor instructions clear. They responded: We have heard back from the business...

When I sat my commercial pilot exams, I didn't spend much time revising for the radio stuff as I was a radio amateur and studied radio...

No, the alarms are < 18 months old with new batteries. First alarm that started going off was the battery wall mounted one, next time it...

Had a chance to investigate yesterday. The boat has been isolated from shore power, the Cristec charger turned off and left for several...

I thought that so looked it up. At the time of the OPs experience, the air pressure at Bordeaux Airport (4th Aug at 1615UTC) was 1016...

Of course in practise that rarely happens on a sailing vessel at the end of the day as the engine is invariably started with all the...

I am fairly sure that the manual for my B&G plotter advises exactly that.

My B&G Zeus S has a setting where you can "pre-approve" turns up to x degrees under autopilot. Since it's a sailing yacht, I set that...