[Public-list] Solar Panel/televisoins on board

[Mike Lehman]

George Lies



Mike Lehman
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----Original Message Follows----
From: dan walker <dsailormon at yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: [Public-list] Solar Panel/televisoins on board
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 16:06:11 -0800 (PST)

well at least you are watching football and not "Reality Shows" so i 
personally will give you a break
   besides you keep lipstick in the cockpit and blame trish. dinwiddie says 
it really is for you
dan
Mike Lehman <sail_505 at hotmail.com> wrote:
   I have a 55 amp altenator on my Universal diesel. I too, find that 
running
the engine approx 20 minutes will top the batteries off. I always do one
battery at a time to prevent battery #1 trickling over to #2 or vise-versa.
Generally I get 5 years from my conventional batteries. They are deep cycle,
but not gel cell. I watch football games while at anchor on my 13" color TV
and usually 2 games in a row. No battery problems. OKAY - you can give me
shit now for having a TV on board - everyone else does.



Mike Lehman
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----Original Message Follows----
From: Gordon Laco
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Subject: Re: [Public-list] Solar Panel
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 09:47:00 -0500

Now there is an interesting subject - here is a thought to clutter the
discussion up.

Back in the 90's I ran a sail training establishment that delivered
programmes aboard a pair of 50 ton brigantines. When we came to do a major
refit to one of them, the engine supplier made the comment that if we set up
our charging system so that the main engine had to be run for an hour each
day (instead of the traditional diesel gen set) we would cut our machinery
maintenance costs to a fraction. It turned out that they were correct.

We built a tidy workshop in the space once occupied by the heavy gen set.

We put two high capacity alternators on the main engine, and on long
passages running it for an hour kept it lubricated and healthy while
supplying all the power we needed. At the same time we also installed two
large solar collectors, but found that the amount of power they contributed
was not worth the space they took up, so they were later sold.

Ok - let fly folks - I expect mine will not be a popular opinion!

Gord #426 Surprise





 > Any of you have solar panels on your A30? What size?
 > Where did you mount them? How well did they work out?
 >
 > I expect that the motor often will only be run long
 > enough to get out of the marina. Some other form of
 > charging is likely to be needed if I don't want to run
 > the diesel just to charge the batteries. Solar seems
 > like the most inexpensive alternative if I want to
 > charge while on trips (being a cheapskate I pretty
 > much always anchor out).
 >
 > Comments on how you manage electrical consumption and
 > replenishment would be interesting to hear.
 >
 > Pete Staehling
 > #554
 > Aurora
 >
 >
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