Good evening soon to be fellow trawler enthusiast! I have come to a decision on the electrical set up. I've been tormenting over the size of the battery bank and inverter/charger and all the alternators and monitors needed to run a good size house bank. I've determined that I was going to use the following:
--24v system using (4) 8d's which would have given me about 510 ah at a cost of ($3,000.00)
--Magnum Inverter/Charger 4000 watts with peak 7200 peak wattage ($2,100.00)
--Alternator 150amp times 2 belmar about ($3,000.00)
There was a lot of other items I would need to make it work but just the base items would cost about ($8,100.00).
I think the time spent on the hook would be about 5 times per year hopefully a week at a time. Cost of diesel will be about $4.00 per gallon, lets say the 12.5kw genset burn 1gal/hour. Diesel for the year will be about 600 gallons or about $2400.00. I think I would use the genset about 1/2 of the time so realistically I would burn about $1,200.00 worth of fuel.
I like the inverter but I'm going to pass this time around.
To the subject, do you really need a large house bank with inverter and so on......
Thanks Paul
--24v system using (4) 8d's which would have given me about 510 ah at a cost of ($3,000.00)
--Magnum Inverter/Charger 4000 watts with peak 7200 peak wattage ($2,100.00)
--Alternator 150amp times 2 belmar about ($3,000.00)
There was a lot of other items I would need to make it work but just the base items would cost about ($8,100.00).
I think the time spent on the hook would be about 5 times per year hopefully a week at a time. Cost of diesel will be about $4.00 per gallon, lets say the 12.5kw genset burn 1gal/hour. Diesel for the year will be about 600 gallons or about $2400.00. I think I would use the genset about 1/2 of the time so realistically I would burn about $1,200.00 worth of fuel.
I like the inverter but I'm going to pass this time around.
To the subject, do you really need a large house bank with inverter and so on......
Thanks Paul