Good Question.
My engine room is 18' (the beam of the vessel) by 13' the fore/aft length of the saloon. Like many motorboats, the ER is under the Saloon. The Main Buss powers almost all the boat. The Engine Starting battery starts the main engine, the genset, and supplies power to the genset control circuits. The ER lights and the ER vent fan runs from separate switches near the Main Buss switch. I plan to add an Emergency Buss to power a few of the most vital loads such as the fresh water pump. The US Navy has a technique I like. When I visited a Frigate years ago I noticed lots of huge extension cords in racks all around the vessel. When I asked I was told these were used to bypass damaged areas of the vessels electrical system damaged in combat. I might try this by putting 12 VDC outlets at various centers so I could energize important devices separate from the entire system. Norm S/V Bandersnatch Lying Julington Creek 30 07.695N 081 38.484W > I have not actually been in Norm's engine room, but Bob says it is bigger than > our whole boat. So maybe it is more like a house fire than a boat fire. > > However if it is an electrical fire and we disconnect the electric, how is the > fan going to work. > _______________________________________________ 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
