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It handles them just fine. I have three, all mounted right next to each other, and a BVM-712 there also. I also have the remote voltage and temp monitor because my batteries are in one space and my charge controllers in another. They’re about 12’ apart through the floor. I can sit in the...

Just a quick update because we have Internet again... We made it down Baja and are now in San Jose del Cabo for a few days waiting on weather before heading north into the Sea. It’s been a great experience so far. Did some more boat work today, mostly on the dingy, which took some damage...

2 year refit of C&L 37 Europa It’s been an insane push to get stuff done and ready to move aboard. We had to be out of the house by February 1, and we are. Just not on the boat yet. So, in the immortal words of Carl Spackler... “So I’ve got that going for me, which is nice.” On a...

Are you trying them on 13? They seem to monitor that more often than 16. Also, I’ve had a few times where the reply was significantly delayed, my assumption being they had to go find/wake up someone who speaks English. I’ve had an AIS transponder on the last three boats, and I know the big...

The canvas work is done, and on the boat. Yesterday we got rained on as we put the snaps on both of the window covers. We used gypsy studs on the phifertex cover, so the opaque sunbrella one can snap over the top of it. The big win was today though. We got the Bimini up and installed on...

I had a course setter when we first bought the boat. Had a similar issue, which turned out to be the lamp in the compass unit had burned out. Then had a similar issue that wasn’t the lamp, but I replaced instead of working through it. I went with a ComNav AP, which interfaced with the...

The FLSA law that governs things like OT pay has a special exemption for public safety, in that overtime pay doesn’t start until after 53 hours per week (for fire) have been worked. It’s sometimes referred to as the 7(k) exemption after the section in the FLSA law. It’s actually listed as 212...

Sure. We work on a 28 day cycle (actually a 24 but they crib it a bit to make 28) instead of a standard 7 day work week. We work one out of every three days, 24 hour shifts. So if you were to average it out it’s 8 hours per day average, so 56 hours in the normal 7 day week. Some weeks we...

Back to the vacation hours.... So I work for a municipal government as a first responder. We work 24 hour shifts and a 56 hour work week of straight time. There are no holidays off per se. With my time on, I get 17 shifts off per year. That includes the “holidays” we don’t get, vacation...

Who says getting roped into a 120 hour shift over Christmas means no boat work? Not this guy... That’s two days of solid holiday routine and time to do my own thing. So I brought this bad boy out of the closet.. It looks nice in the classroom here at work. I didn’t finish patterning the...

Well, that took significantly longer than I thought. Mostly due to my ineptitude, but the tank is out. It’s a good news / bad news moment... The good news is that the tank is out, and I was able to find another issue that was soon to fail catastrophically. The bad news is that the fill has...

How did you guess? Actually, that’s phase 2. All that PPE is for cutting out the old black iron fuel tank. And while I’m rarely serious, on a very serious note those safety glasses just saved my eye. I was cutting overhead and a big old chunk of red hot metal hit me dead in the face...

Heh. Guess what this idiot is doing with his days off this week...

I’m so close to putting a wrap on this project, I can taste it. I finally escaped work this morning and got a boat day. I took an unfortunate 50 hour detour through Malibu and I’m still trying to recover. I’m not 25 anymore, and I just can’t catch up on rest as fast anymore. Especially when...

I’ve been thinking a lot about this. I have about an hour commute and this morning I spent every second of it pondering this. Basically trying to justify in my mind why I don’t need to add a load switch, and in that time I couldn’t think of even one compelling reason not to. So I’m going to...

That sounds like quite the experience. Thanks for the advice. I’ve got my alternator landing on the positive bus bar, along with the AC charger and the solar controllers (more on those later.) each of the three batteries has its own isolation switch, so if one really wanted to it is...

I’ve been working on the battery system, and documenting it in another thread. When it’s done I’ll post an update on it here. But I’ve gotten to the point where there’s so much project crap sitting all over everywhere that I can’t find the parts I need when I need them. So I took a few hours...

Just a quick update to say that I’m pretty stoked because my boat starts again... And that after I removed my head from my keister I realized that a switch on the dash for ignition was pretty idiotic. I just back traced the ignition switch and found it landed on the engine terminal strip...

Managed a half day today and a half on Friday. Even though it was two halves, it still didn’t equal a whole. I did manage to figure out where I’m going to place the start battery, and I ran the positive cabling for it. I also mocked up the duo-charge location and figured out the cable...

So I had a GMS10 (or whatever the older version was) on my previous boat because back then the MFD's didn't have multiple ports. I also used to do a lot of LV data cabling in a previous life. It's totally feasible to roll your own with a few caveats. While a normal hub/switch (it's a switch)...

Today was HUGE! Firstly because I actually got the day off work. I was supposed to have five days off this week before I rolled into another work segment, but that got nuked to about a day and a half, and today was the day. But more importantly, the battery cabling, monitor, and...

Update as I take a little break from boat yoga in the engine space... So far, this is the wiring that I’ve removed today: Actually, there’s a bit more than that now, as I took that shot before lunch and before I pulled the last battery positive run. Here’s what the positive switch/ bus bar...

So, the fates decided to really delay this project, as I got deployed up to Northern California for almost three weeks for work. But I got back home yesterday and back to boat work today. It was a pretty good day. I laid everything out to make sure I had what I needed. With the exception of...

It is. And it usually isn’t... The project is on hold for a few days as the fates have decided that instead of having days off to work on the boat, I really need to work the next five straight. The good news is that this will fund the project and the addition of a dedicated start battery...

Why? Before I added the first two solar panels I could easily go three days in between charging sessions. We run the engine every other day for hot water, so we end up charging about 40-45 amp hours during that. I noticed after I added the 200w of solar I was putting back about half my daily...