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Forum: Marine Electronics 23-09-2018, 08:56
Replies: 23
Views: 3,170
Posted By bluegreen
Re: Adding PC fans to solar circuit

My pc fan has been running off the batteries for 3 years. Keeps the Natures Head smell flowing out.
Hook it to batteries and let em run. On my house bank it ran 3 months without dropping a half...
Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 19-07-2017, 18:54
Replies: 36
Views: 4,177
Posted By bluegreen
Re: Making and using an electromagnet?

Newfoundland*
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 12-08-2016, 19:41
Replies: 25
Views: 4,301
Posted By bluegreen
Re: Acreage - Rv -sailboat

Early welcome to Vancouver! My wife and I just did what your doing and love it. We're at Shelter island Marina and it's a safe haven for liveaboards. We are building our boat from scratch and...
Forum: Classifieds Archive 17-06-2016, 18:38
Replies: 13
Want To Buy: Liveaboard in the PNW
Views: 2,590
Posted By bluegreen
Re: Liveaboard in the PNW

there are about 3-5 "for sale" signs around on various water craft. A 60ft cat at yachtsaleswest.com is here among others. A 40' steel ketch for $17 several larger power boats etc.
I thought it...
Forum: Classifieds Archive 16-06-2016, 20:13
Replies: 13
Want To Buy: Liveaboard in the PNW
Views: 2,590
Posted By bluegreen
Re: Liveaboard in the PNW

My wife and I, daughter and 2 old cats live at Shelter Island Marina a little ways up the Fraser river. Lots of stuff moving through here. Great boats for sale, we love living here.
Good luck!
Forum: Engines and Propulsion Systems 08-06-2016, 08:05
Replies: 84
Views: 9,060
Posted By bluegreen
Re: If No Engine ... Why All The Fuss About "Proper", BIG Electric Motor?

Hi there. Im building a 36' fero ketch with electric drive. A pair of commercial pallet jack engines. 1.5 kw each. (24 volt at 83 amps)
With 1kw solar charging and a diesel genset as a back up...
Forum: Training, Licensing & Certification 12-03-2016, 07:34
Replies: 64
Views: 11,277
Posted By bluegreen
Re: A cheap crash course in sailing so we know what we're doing for the sea trial

Hi Mike and Michelle. My wife and I are in a similar position. PM me and we can pool our knowledge and see what we come up with. We are living on our 36' ketch in Richmond that we are building...
Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar 08-02-2016, 08:07
Replies: 10
Views: 1,860
Posted By bluegreen
Re: kWh Meter for Battery Bank

Midnite Classic 150 has loads of features. Also has ethernet connection to show graphs on your laptop and daily charge cycles for up to 350 days or something. Displays volts in, watts out, total...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 02-02-2016, 17:05
Replies: 71
Views: 7,990
Posted By bluegreen
Re: Comparing diesel vrs electric propulsion(DIY/Production) in terms of resell value

I salvaged 2 old electric pallet jacks for $200 each. With their motors and controllers i saved a bundle and instead of a huge battery bank im building a genset to run from my teather rather then...
Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar 22-01-2016, 16:26
Replies: 41
Views: 4,546
Posted By bluegreen
Re: Someone Check my Math

Thanks guys. Good input. I will look for your advice in future posts. Take care. Got some reading to do!
Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar 22-01-2016, 07:34
Replies: 41
Views: 4,546
Posted By bluegreen
Re: Someone Check my Math

Please post again after you get set up with multiple mppt controlers on the same battery bank. The way my Midnite 200 works is it does a battery test every 3 min and checks the voltage, determines...
Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar 21-01-2016, 18:36
Replies: 41
Views: 4,546
Posted By bluegreen
Re: Someone Check my Math

That brings up a good point. Are dual parrell systems more effective then a single, higher voltage system when using the same equipment?
Provided your peaks are within specs of course.
Thanks...
Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar 21-01-2016, 08:26
Replies: 41
Views: 4,546
Posted By bluegreen
Re: Someone Check my Math

Not some random connector. The wires from the pannel itself are not very big. My 30 volt 9 amp panels are in series. So i have 66.7 volts of pannel with rather small wire from them to the...
Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar 20-01-2016, 20:50
Replies: 41
Views: 4,546
Posted By bluegreen
Re: Someone Check my Math

Im completley wrong because im out 5%... ok.
If his panels are not 90 degrees perpendicular to the sun and are most likely flat he will loose 30 percent. Inverters are 87 percent efficient. ...
Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar 20-01-2016, 19:40
Replies: 41
Views: 4,546
Posted By bluegreen
Re: Someone Check my Math

If you look at the size of the pins that your connecting too, there is no real need to guage a run thicker then that. The 700 amp line for a 10 amp short seems excessive to me. Go with the 14...
Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar 13-10-2015, 11:32
Replies: 33
Views: 5,650
Posted By bluegreen
Re: Question: Batteries in Parallel, all loads from main + & -

To answer your exact question, no. It wont make any difference. Everything connected to that parallel "node" sees the same voltage. Current will flow determined by resistive loads, not placement....
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