Category: Wiring
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Shore Power electrical progress
Feels like solid progress for an all electric boat today 😊 Our shore power is now connected to a waterproof 32 amp Victron socket in the cockpit. From there it goes through a Victron 7000watt Isolation Transformer and then our Victron Multiplus II (combined 5000watt Inverter and 70 amp battery charger). Then onwards to the…
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New video on our October half term progress
It was quite an eventful “holiday” with winds over 50mph and torrential rain causing flooding around the boat. Still we got quite a lot done (Bow Roller testing, Saloon destruction and our first Dyneema chainplates). Here is the video:
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Mast preparation continued
With a beautiful day we had a nice slow morning with family and then got back to preparing our main and mizzen masts for painting (well we also washed the dinghy and equipment). We now have all the wiring out of the main mast. We have put messenger lines in for them all. We have…
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Battery bank installation progress
Today has included a huge amount of lifting and moving. A large part of that was lifting all 8 batteries on board. You can see the preparation for this in Low down progress First battery bank has a nearly finished box (needs final epoxy coating and painting plus a lid). The second battery bank will…
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Building a “sofa”
The other day we made Lee Boards for our starboard saloon berth. Today we’ve started the process of making them adapt to their other role which is to be a backrest. It isn’t finished yet. I need to find a way to retain the back rests so they can’t fall forward. Also add a brace…
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Confusing earth wiring
When buying Vida, our surveyor included concerns about the earth. We knew that the engine was “earthed” by a jump lead to the stern tube (and the jump lead was very rusty). I’ve just found these wires connected to the anode that is bolted through the hull. Quite a collection! We have green/yellow, back, blue…
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Now we are definitely going to 48volt house battery bank
This answers our pondering House Battery Bank: Should we go 48 volt So we managed to get these two items from the clearance section at Energy Solutions. The new MultiPlus II (looks like a decent upgrade from the original MultiPlus). Sized with a 48 volt, 5000 Watt inverter and a 70 amp charger. For the…
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Late evening progress
Well we arrived at Vida at 11.20pm and decided it was worth connecting our new mains consumer unit before bed. We can now use the full 16amp boatyard supply. At the moment I’ve wired in a couple of extension leads. Already a nice tidy up possible from the way we have managed with a “consumer”…
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House Battery Bank: Should we go 48 Volt?
While we wrote Going 100% electric: the “house” after Going 100% electric: the Motor we had in fact made most of the decisions around the house electrical system before we made the decision that we would go straight to an electric motor instead of the diesel. Now we are thinking about making a change. The…
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Into 2nd wave lockdowns
So a quick update on where we are at. The situation for Manchester is still chaos without agreement between the national and local governments regarding the level of lockdown we should be in. However, we are expecting to be more restricted soon (bearing in mind that Manchester has had it’d own lockdown for months anyway).…