If you run your batteries all the way to dead, you will shortly need new ones. I know a standard car battery is ruined in about 3 total discharges. Suggest installing a battery monitor, so you know when to charge and when it is economical to stop. Lee Haefele ----- Original Message ----- From: Wally To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 2:19 PM Subject: [Liveaboard] Electrical systems install
Arild and I were batting this one around offlist yesterday. How the boat is used has to be part of the equation. When travelling south on the ICW, I start and run the engine daily. Usually, it isn't sunny enough in the fall to recharge the starting battery, so, after several days of this, I'd likely have a deficit in power, demonstrated by the battery's inability to turn the engine over. One solution would be to use jumper cables when - not if - this occured, but that doesn't solve the recharging problem. So, for my situation, isolation isn't a workable option. Here's a tip some may not know - if your diesel has decompression levers, if the battery is low and barely able to turn the engine over, knock them down to turn the engine over at speed with the batteries' remaining power, then flip them back one cylinder at a time. The engine will run on one cylinder, then its power can turn over and start the second one. Thanks to a Sea Tow captain in Oriental for that one. Wally s/v Gypsy Wind lying Annapolis, MD ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Yahoo! Canada Toolbar : Search from anywhere on the web and bookmark your favourite sites. Download it now! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Internal Virus Database is out of date. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.175 / Virus Database: 270.8.6/1769 - Release Date: 11/5/2008 7:17 AM
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