Marine Electrician in Plymouth

[stranded]

I have finally decided, after 6 years of crossed fingers, that I need to figure out how my electrical system works - I cannot diy: I appear to be electrickery blind - believe me, I have tried and tried but it makes no sense to me, so I am giving up. So I am looking for an articulate clued up electrician in the Plymouth area who I might be able to hire for a day (probably after the spring rush, to sketch out the system for me and go through the options - specifically, best way to charge three battery banks from one alternator. At the moment I run the genny to charge the house bank as it gets very little from the engine. And god knows how the bowrhruster and windlass battery works, though it does.

 

[skipper021]

You could try Francis Morris - FM Marine Services, Fran works with a colleague called Martin who is quite good on electrics. Fran's number is 07745 284569.

Another local (Plymouth/SW Devon) contact for electrics is Andrew Still - AM Marine, his number is 07855 767117

If you use Facebook, there is a useful group/forum for electrical questions, search for '12 volts boating group' On this forum there is also a 'Files' section with basic 12v DC circuit drawings and lots of other stuff, very useful!
Good luck!

 

[stranded]

Thanks Skipper, I’ll give them a call - there’s no point me looking at drawings - I really do have some form of electricity dyslexia! I’m going down tonight to babysit the boat through tomorrow’s storm so I am going to use the time to do a bit of digging around and at least try to catalogue all the components in the oh so complicated system.