On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 11:02:32 +1300, "Bert van den Berg"
wrote:

Our windlass battery is in the chain locker at the foremost part of the
boat.

There are some medium size wires running from the windlass battery to the
main house bank with a switch to allow me to charge the windlass battery
when the house bank is being charged by the engine. I disconnect the
windlass battery when the engine is not running. Sometimes I forget to
connect the windlass battery or forget to disconnect the windlass battery.

Just wondering where others place their windlass battery and how do they
charge it?

Bert van den Berg
S/V Guinevere
New Zealand

If you are charging he Windless battery by connecting to the house
bank there are, if I remember correctly, switches that can be adjusted
to connect the second battery only after the house bank reaches a
specific voltage and disconnect it when the batteries falls to a lower
voltage which will do pretty much what you want. I think that West
Marine sold them for connecting the house and start batteries for
charging (in a two battery system).

I don't remember prices but it was sufficiently higher then an
alternate (or I was too cheap) so I never bought one :-)
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Cheers,

Bruce in Bangkok