FullCircle
Well-Known Member
Well, I have been in trepidation for some time, as I have torn out a perfectly good electrical system as provided by Jeanneau, and replaced a good portion of the engine bay wiring.
I have replaced the mechanical battery switches (3 of em, 1 Neg, 1 House, 1 Engine) with a Whizzo Voltage Sensitive Relay setup from BEP.
I added a Battery/Ampere monitoring system also from BEP, the 600.
Also added an Essential Circuits Module from BEP
And,I added an Alternator Management System, the AMS from Merlin.
Finally, all the warranty replacement Navman 3100s arrived from Plastimo so they are new too.
All this meant that I had to deconstruct the engine bulkhead, as the old isolation switches all poked though it in a line, make a new one out of a spare Jeanneau cabin door that Magna Carter donated. (Wow, some Beachcomber he is!). Being Jeanneau, they couldnt just make it square. No, no, they made sure it was CNC Routered and the thickness at the ends different. Sheesh.
Of course, all the current engine and windlass, charge relays and fuses etc were all nailed to this misshapen lump of wood.
To increase technical difficulty I wanted to put the VSR swich bank in a different place, which meant rearranging everything else. It also meant having 2 extra bus bars to attach all the postive feeds to , and a neg shunt to attach all the negs to.
Oh yes, and the engine fire extinguisher was out of date, and the replacement is fatter. Hmmph.
Anyway, most of the battery cables had to be junked and remade, and the whole routing/clipping changed, and extensions to some of the Jeanneau wiring made.
Well, in the order of things, my electrics are just above my wood skills.
I therefore had Trevera25 come and look it over, and look for any dumbass mistakes the other weekend while it was still a mess.
Anyway, 950 tie wraps later, I couldnt put it off anymore. At this point I considered taking up smoking again, but had a beer and walked around the deck another couple of times, watched a Dragon race from the coachroof, and went below.
I connected the negs to the batteries, and then, tremble, tremble shoved the pos on the house battery. Small spark at terminal, a clatter from a relay and a loud alarm, and I sh#t myself. However, all settled down, as this was the essential circuits module taking up, and the gas alarm initialising.
I then connected the engine battery, and no sounds were heard.
No smells were smelled, and no smoke either. Top stuff.
I switched on the house battery switch, and checked it all through. The battery monitor was happily monitoring, the Webasto timer beeped because it wanted clock setting, and the CD player flashing for similar attention. VHF fired up to Ch16 and Gris Nez Coastguardess giving out Nav warnings. All normal. Instruments all functioning. Fine effort.
Engine battery switched on, similar non event. Knockout.
All in all, the only failure I can observe is the port side cockpit speaker aint working.
So, new prop shaft/propeller/burp seal fitted.
It only remains to actually start the engine to check the AMS now.... but that will happen when we launch.
So , trepidation over. Phew!
I have replaced the mechanical battery switches (3 of em, 1 Neg, 1 House, 1 Engine) with a Whizzo Voltage Sensitive Relay setup from BEP.
I added a Battery/Ampere monitoring system also from BEP, the 600.
Also added an Essential Circuits Module from BEP
And,I added an Alternator Management System, the AMS from Merlin.
Finally, all the warranty replacement Navman 3100s arrived from Plastimo so they are new too.
All this meant that I had to deconstruct the engine bulkhead, as the old isolation switches all poked though it in a line, make a new one out of a spare Jeanneau cabin door that Magna Carter donated. (Wow, some Beachcomber he is!). Being Jeanneau, they couldnt just make it square. No, no, they made sure it was CNC Routered and the thickness at the ends different. Sheesh.
Of course, all the current engine and windlass, charge relays and fuses etc were all nailed to this misshapen lump of wood.
To increase technical difficulty I wanted to put the VSR swich bank in a different place, which meant rearranging everything else. It also meant having 2 extra bus bars to attach all the postive feeds to , and a neg shunt to attach all the negs to.
Oh yes, and the engine fire extinguisher was out of date, and the replacement is fatter. Hmmph.
Anyway, most of the battery cables had to be junked and remade, and the whole routing/clipping changed, and extensions to some of the Jeanneau wiring made.
Well, in the order of things, my electrics are just above my wood skills.
I therefore had Trevera25 come and look it over, and look for any dumbass mistakes the other weekend while it was still a mess.
Anyway, 950 tie wraps later, I couldnt put it off anymore. At this point I considered taking up smoking again, but had a beer and walked around the deck another couple of times, watched a Dragon race from the coachroof, and went below.
I connected the negs to the batteries, and then, tremble, tremble shoved the pos on the house battery. Small spark at terminal, a clatter from a relay and a loud alarm, and I sh#t myself. However, all settled down, as this was the essential circuits module taking up, and the gas alarm initialising.
I then connected the engine battery, and no sounds were heard.
No smells were smelled, and no smoke either. Top stuff.
I switched on the house battery switch, and checked it all through. The battery monitor was happily monitoring, the Webasto timer beeped because it wanted clock setting, and the CD player flashing for similar attention. VHF fired up to Ch16 and Gris Nez Coastguardess giving out Nav warnings. All normal. Instruments all functioning. Fine effort.
Engine battery switched on, similar non event. Knockout.
All in all, the only failure I can observe is the port side cockpit speaker aint working.
So, new prop shaft/propeller/burp seal fitted.
It only remains to actually start the engine to check the AMS now.... but that will happen when we launch.
So , trepidation over. Phew!
