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thanks for the reply, my boat / engines are 30 years, i have just 2300h on the motors they had by the previous owner a service from carterpillar in 2014 i travel the last years not so mutch , the trips i make are 4h to 6h max, i had a technical guy from carterpillar who told me it is not good...

how old are the engines and how may runtime ? i have 3208TA running good at the moment fine that you haven found the problem

i think that i also put a fuse of 50A in the (-) line that go from the gen to the central (-) point so if i have problems the fuse will blow.

Hello, at the moment the battery of the generator (onan) is only connected to the generator I put a new battery charger in withs support 3 battery groups with kommen - for the service and starter battery the - is connected to a star point on one battery. to connect the generator battery , i...

if the teak deck is ferm gleud it is not possible to save the teak it will break during removal. i am very lucky that the teak had not a firm bound withe the deck and all the removed planks did not break (did 20% now) i have some parts that are glued i use a oscilating saw with a old blade...

i have a trader from 1990 the front teak dek some planks are not good gleud on the deck and a lot of screws are not real tight. last week i removed the planks without breaking on the port side of the cabin. cleaned the deck the use a 4mm drill to clean the screw holes and look to not damage the...

we stay onboard and our service bank is loaded by solar during 8 months, we have then no shore power and want to start the gen when the battery bank is to low. i m made a study for the best solution (i am a industrial automatisation engineer) and the battery voltage is a good measurement if you...

thanks, tats a good one, before i place it i will try the searchlight bij night, so i can see the effect, the arc i very high i had it on my previous boat also on the ars and its was practical i had almost a 360 gr use of the searchlight

thanks, but this one is new it was form my previous bout but i did not install it. the manuel is gone, got the rest. im thinking also the problem could be water intrusion, its under a big plate but i can make a plate under it (its only a job i cannot do)

hello, a strange question, can i mount a guest searchlight upside down under my radar? It is the best place, if not i have to make a plate that hangs under the radar Best regards, Patrick

Hello, i have a standard horizon cp1000c plotter and on the front under the 2 c-map cards is a small usb connector. the manuel only mention it is a usb slave connection. Wath can i do with it ? Do i need software to connect to the plotter ? i also cannot use a c-card to transfer data, the...

I our case we planned to search for a bigger boat for stay on it and not to extended trips. we made a list of the space we want to have, large master head, big shower or a real bath a spare bed room, a small work room, a storage room, good kitchen, lot of closets good saloon with big windows, a...

i put the sensor just before the hose on the metal tube from the motor

i had almost the same problem lukely i had installed 2 pt100 sensors with omron temp meters, is a industrial means off getting a good temp measurement and alarm. i had a impeller broken , the motor temp changed noting but in less than a minute the exhaust temp got to 180gr and i got a alarm...

sorry for the confusion first the motors are 435hp and there is no anode in the after cooler in my previous message i was refering to the anodes (3) from the cooling water heat exchanger (rond tube above the flywheel). Best regards, Patrick

if you make a video Hello, i have also 457hp 3208 from 1990 they have only 3100h and 2970h on the clock had a full service some years ago from cat befor i got the boat, they run very smooth, start direct in 1 or 2 sec (hard to tell, but you get the picture) i have opend the sb engine heat...

very nice boats, different design, well build i have workt on the electrical of a elling they have a nice layout, good schematics i found only the top of the motor hard to access (there is a big wire bundel on top of the motor) not my type of boat we like to look more outside from the saloon...

i dident think of this about the same, we have a very good sound isolation, we don't hear the genset (onan 12,5kw) and if we shift in gear we travel almost 7knts its even hard on inland channels as the max is 4knts Best regards, Patrick

td from 1990 i have 3208ta 435hp version with td507-1 the boat is made with 2 handels for the clutch and 2 handels for the fuel ( 2 engines) i have the boat now for 4 years and in the beginning the port clutch needed 2sec to engaged this now less then 1 sec i have no bang on the td's the motor...

some thinking when i put my electronic antifouling on the installer told me that plants still grow on the bout but they cannot stik very well to the hull as the first layer of the plant are dead from the ultrasonic, i had to go 8kn or 10 kn to get rid of the most the diver told the same story...

my personal experiance Hello, I had a lot of growht on my previous boat and cleaned it yearly, one year i put a epoxy couting on an installed the ultrasonic on without antifouling so i has a hard surface. the installer worn me to not use a soft antifouling as the prevent the uslrasonic from...

Hello, On my standard horizon c1000c plotter i get the error "c-card not valid" when i try to use a c-card to save my data, i also can not format theze cards. I have a cmap - user 128Kb, a cmap 4Mb, and a cmap 8Mb all have the same error. Who can give me advice ? Best regards, Patrick

hello, im lucky to get a stadaard horizon cp 1000 plotter. one i can read easy (big screen) i have c-map NT+ cards form my area and a c-card to save trips and the extra markers i put on to update my carts Is have a c-map usb multimedia reader for my previous boat bu the software disk is lost...

on my previous boat we had mooring on the schelde (belgium) its a tidle river with 5m till 6m form high to low water. our boat had 2 engine from 170hp and was 32ft mostly we had also a lot of current the best way for us was if we had the current in the back i put both engines in back and put...

it depends on the documentation provided by the previous owner and the first impression of the motors. For example our last boat, we got a first look around, i always carry my laser temp meter, it was december, the motors look like just out of shop, the engine room was clean, and all the...