Re: Stus-List Battery Bank Configuration

2020-01-09 Thread T Sutton via CnC-List
to LED but we spend a month or so in the North Channel and no issues so far. Tom S From: Robert Boyer via CnC-List Sent: Thursday, January 9, 2020 7:24 AM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Cc: Robert Boyer Subject: Re: Stus-List Battery Bank Configuration There may come a time that I regret my current

Re: Stus-List Battery Bank Configuration

2020-01-09 Thread Robert Boyer via CnC-List
There may come a time that I regret my current battery configuration but I haven’t regretted it for the past 5 years of cruising. I currently have four Group 31 Firefly Oasis carbon foam AGM’s ($500 each) in parallel as one large battery bank. I have 340 watts of flexible (Solbian) solar

Re: Stus-List Battery Bank Configuration

2020-01-05 Thread Bill Coleman via CnC-List
-list.com Cc: Bradley Lumgair Subject: Stus-List Battery Bank Configuration I had a similar issue, left me in a tight spot in the mouth of the river with dead batteries once, replaced original 1-2-all switch with a blue sea switch and an ACR, found Windstar’s blog quite useful, wired mine similarly

Stus-List Battery Bank Configuration

2020-01-05 Thread Bradley Lumgair via CnC-List
I had a similar issue, left me in a tight spot in the mouth of the river with dead batteries once, replaced original 1-2-all switch with a blue sea switch and an ACR, found Windstar’s blog quite useful, wired mine similarly. Brad Pulse 1985 C 33 Lake Huron ~Anything worth doing requires

Re: Stus-List Battery Bank Configuration

2020-01-04 Thread Josh Muckley via CnC-List
You're boat is wired wrong or you are misinterpreting the indications. You are absolutely correct that the starter battery should be "spared". Really what "spared" means is that it should always and only be connected to the engine starter. The output of the alternator should be switched by an

Stus-List Battery Bank Configuration

2020-01-04 Thread Peter Cowenhoven via CnC-List
This may be obvious to most of you but came as a surprise to me.  I've got a 3 battery bank with 2 deep cycles and 1 starter battery.  It's got a 1 All 2  switch.  I was testing load and was surprised to see that if you're using 1 or 2 it's also drawing power off the starter battery too.