George asked: snipped > Looks like (from all the familiar web hits) that many of you boat > owners have TravelPower units installed. Are those the only game in > town? Is everyone happy? Or have I reached the wrong conclusion?
I have a TravelPower, as I have said, but there is a competitor called Dynawatt. I should know because I discovered it and started the engineering work on it when I worked for Lister briefly. It is reputedly used by ambulances and emergency vehicles quite a bit. I cannot remember much about it now in terms of costs and sizes etc but, from memory, it was very slightly cheaper. Lister did eventually offer it on their factory built marine engines but, as you know they've gone by the board now and the marine engines are produced by Pete Thompson's firm and one other IIRC. I've got off my arrass and Googled a link for you http://tinyurl.com/ypad9d On my narrow boat, built in 2000, I went down the KISS route and piggy- backed a generator onto the engine with a coupling that could be made/broken when I didn't want to generate. The downside with this arrangement is that you can only generate when stationary, whereas the TP and DW machines will allow you to travel and do the washing etc. HTH Roger
