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Forum: Challenges

10-08-2023, 01:12

Replies: 73

Brain Buster- How to use a bosuns chair to reach the end of a cantilevered beam?

Views: 5,297

Posted By Carlos M

Re: Brain Buster- How to use a bosuns chair to reach the end of a cantilevered beam?

Isn’t there a sail track in that mast? Just roll the mast so the track side faces down.

You’ll have to climb out unsecured the first time to reach the track gate and slide in a couple of sliders....

Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar

27-11-2022, 06:25

Replies: 109

What about fuses with the switches at point of use?

Views: 7,948

Posted By Carlos M

Re: What about fuses with the switches at point of use?

No harm done. Just take it easy, one bit at a time. Good luck.

Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar

27-11-2022, 06:00

Replies: 109

What about fuses with the switches at point of use?

Views: 7,948

Posted By Carlos M

Re: What about fuses with the switches at point of use?

OK. Sorry if I offended you. I am not a native English speaker but reading back your whole thread I really thought you were proposing to do multiple taps on a main “bus” and run small wires from...

Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar

27-11-2022, 05:47

Replies: 109

What about fuses with the switches at point of use?

Views: 7,948

Posted By Carlos M

Re: What about fuses with the switches at point of use?

If you understood and agree with what CaptTom so clearly explained above, you will have to install a circuit breaker at each tap point. To protect the smaller tap wire from the tap point to the load....

Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar

27-11-2022, 05:40

Replies: 109

What about fuses with the switches at point of use?

Views: 7,948

Posted By Carlos M

Re: What about fuses with the switches at point of use?

No, it won’t. If all goes well it will respect the calculated selectivity and only the 15 A will open.

Again, I may have misunderstood you but you were considering the 15 A breaker at the end of...

Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar

27-11-2022, 03:09

Replies: 109

What about fuses with the switches at point of use?

Views: 7,948

Posted By Carlos M

Re: What about fuses with the switches at point of use?

You intend to tap several “much smaller wires for the LEDs” from the 4AWG protected upstream by a 50 A circuit breaker. Then you run those tap wires to the correspondent loads where you fuse and...

Forum: Health, Safety & Related Gear

10-11-2022, 00:23

Replies: 53

Silly idea - mylar balloons as safety gear?

Views: 4,409

Posted By Carlos M

Re: Silly idea - mylar balloons as safety gear?

CO2 density at 21 C, 1 bara is aprox 1800 g /m3. A 32 g CO2 cartridge holds aprox 0.018m3 of CO2 expanded. That’s 18 litres, a sphere of aprox 32 cm of diameter (12.5 in for the metrically...

Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit

15-09-2022, 00:30

Replies: 11

New water tanks placement

Views: 732

Posted By Carlos M

Re: New water tanks placement

Can’t opine on the weight placement but what about flexible bladders in the aft positions? Instead of custom HDPE? I am going to add a bladder to my OE HR Mistress 32 under the SB quarter berth....

Forum: Europe

21-10-2021, 11:09

Replies: 3

Dead Batteries in Portugal

Views: 1,047

Posted By Carlos M

Re: Dead Batteries in Portugal

Hi. Try www.bateriasdacidade.pt . They do sell Trojan and Exide (among others). Everytime I've dealt with them they've been knowledgeable and nice.

Rua Conde de Almoster Nr. 112
1500 - 198...

Forum: General Sailing Forum

22-09-2021, 02:34

Replies: 263

Orcas have destroyed our rudder

Views: 34,854

Posted By Carlos M

Re: Orcas have destroyed our rudder

It would have been Sines, ~100 nm South of Nazaré.

https://beachcam.meo.pt/newsroom/2021/09/orcas-interagem-com-bote-no-porto-de-sines/
...

Forum: Engines and Propulsion Systems

11-09-2021, 00:17

Replies: 14

Help! Yanmar 3YM30 dumped what seems like all of its oil!

Views: 2,461

Posted By Carlos M

Re: Help! Yanmar 3YM30 dumped what seems like all of its oil!

Too much oil can also cause excessive crankcase pressure. How much oil can you read on the dipstick and how much you figure is in the pan bellow the engine? Have you checked oil level before using...

Forum: General Sailing Forum

13-04-2021, 02:48

Replies: 247

Massive amounts of plastic....burn or ignore?

Views: 29,816

Posted By Carlos M

Re: Massive amounts of plastic....burn or ignore?

I'm very sorry, my iphone has a will of its own, sometimes. I was just looking for an edit/delete button but can't find it. Not even a "report" so a mod could help delete...

Forum: General Sailing Forum

12-04-2021, 18:45

Replies: 247

Massive amounts of plastic....burn or ignore?

Views: 29,816

Posted By Carlos M

Re: Massive amounts of plastic....burn or ignore?

Eeeeee

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