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"Flying Pig" charging hard! .GIF at 11...
Poor Skip. He just comes in from sea and I kept him sitting in that hot
engine room for most of the day fixing electrical charging problems on the Flying Pig. The charge controller attached to the old ferro-resonant 70A charger was disconnected. The ferro-resonant charger looked like someone had cooked it for 4 hours in a 850F oven. It was a "golden brown"...were the transformer used to be..... The decision was made to join the 21st Century so we took the French Fried Mercedes diesel to Waste Marine and bought a new Xantrex 40A, 3- bank monster electronic charger. Flying Pig has gained 2.8" of freeboard! The old charger weighed the same as the keel...The new charger weighs just a little more than your cellphone...(c; Once HE, sitting there atop the monster L16H battery box, got the charger hooked up, it went clean to the stop at 40A! It has stayed there, ever since, because his solar (15-20A) and windcharger (10-15A) failed to keep up with the electrical load, leaving the batteries around 1.19 sp. gr. at 12.6V....a discharged state. We lit off the big Perkins 6 and I got to smelling burning rubber with the alternator voltage never coming up to 14VDC. Loose belt, a new belt that had stretched coming up from FL. I still think a 70A alternator also pulling a water pump NEEDS TWO BELTS for this load! We also discovered that the Winch battery in the bow is NOT connected through the AH meter shunt in the engine room....so the charger ammeter was pegged at 40A and the AH meter's shunt only measured 20-25A from it. Next problem we'll work on is why all the damned charge controllers are set SO LOW! 13.6VDC isn't going to charge batteries! 14.2VDC does! An adjustment is in order...I hope. God it's HOT in that boat with the engine compartment open....WHEW! I'm soaked. I must have shed 30 gallons of body water today.... Well, tomorrow is another day....(c; My turn at the Flying Pig! Larry -- PU! Off to the Shower Larry! |
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