[Public-list] Navigation Lights and fuzes

[George Dinwiddie]

You may want to get your alternator checked.  If the battery
disconnected while the engine was running, it may have blown your
alternator diodes.

 - George

On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 10:29:34AM -0400, Meinhold, Michael J wrote:
>  When I bought the boat, the surveyor (Gail Browning of Hartoft) insisted on
> a fuze on each positive battery cable, as close as possible to the battery.
> I put in two 200A fuzes. When the starter disintegrated, it shorted the
> battery and blew that fuze, but the engine kept on running. I didn't know it
> until the paint on the starter was smoking. Without the fuze, the battery
> cable might have burned and things would be _a lot_ worse.  The same would
> be true for a destroyed alternator.  

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