A Combiner, invented by Ann-Marie on this list, is a smart relay that hooks up between two banks of batteries, such as my house batteries and my starting battery, and connects the two together whenever one is being charged and there is enough power available to charge both banks.
It is like turning your battery switch to "all" at the appropriate time to charge all your vessel's batteries, and then turning it back after the charging power is off, all automatically. Norm S/V Bandersnatch Lying Julington Creek FL 30 07.72N 081 38.4W > [Original Message] > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: 12/30/2007 4:50:10 PM > Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] Battery Explosions > > Norm, > > Pardon my ignorance but what is a "Combiner"? > > Tom > Atlantic Beach, Fla. > -------------- Original message ---------------------- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I had one explode in the bilge. My then Gas boat Gas generator would not > > start, I was young, I kept cranking it, and cranking it , and bang, it exploded. > > Gases were all over the bildge. I suppose it exploded from over cranking? > > > > I was lucky. > > > > > > See you on the Waterway > > Capt. Sterling > > > > > > MV _SterlingLadyIII_ (http://floridakeys.homestead.com/sterlingladyIII.html) > > Key Largo, Fl. > > > > > > > > **************************************See AOL's top rated recipes > > (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004) > > _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
