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<DIV>My boat has 4 floor panels forward of the engine. The first three are deep
the last is shallow. Hull #152. I have put the starter battery closest to the
engine and used two large deep cycle cells in parallel with one in each box
forward of the starting battery.Two large batteries will not fit in the same
box. Additionally, the speed transducer is the second one forward and I wanted
to keep the battery away from that. Each battery is strapped down. I drilled 1 "
holes with a hole saw and a half inch drill between all three boxes. My 3/8"
drill bogged down. The partitions were about one and a quarter inch thick! I
have used a West battery combiner between the two banks and connected the
alternator output directy to the house bank. Never have blown diodes. Both
banks run to an emergency parallel switch that will allow both circuits to start
the engine if necessary, but other than that they are completely separate. The
charger (shore side) also feeds the house bank only. When the combiner sees a
voltage above a certain level it opens and charges both banks simultaneously. I
used 1/0 battery cable for the runs. The automatic bilge pump is also tied
directly to the house batteries and separately fused with an emergency cutoff.
Both the House and starter circuit have a 100 amp fuse block in the positive
battery line. </DIV>
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<DIV>For those who are interested, I am using a Blue Sea 13 breaker panel with
meters. That and a Blue Sea master switch panel and parallel circuit fit in a a
9.5 inch by 21 inch by 7 inch deep teak box that sits across the top of the
engine compartment below the companionway just under the old compass well. I
hinged it on the right so it could swing out for maintenance.</DIV>
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<DIV>I have had to drill a number of holes elsewhere in the boat for new
electrical cables. Gosh, these boats are built! Just about everything is twice
as thick as it was on my Cal 2-29. Structural integrity is amazing. Have fun,
but don't try to drill that hole with a cordless 3/8 drill.</DIV>
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<DIV>Alan</DIV>
<DIV>Andante (almost done) #152</DIV>
<DIV>(engine coming back May 8th)<BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>*********** REPLY
SEPARATOR ***********<BR><BR>On 4/25/2000 at 11:58 PM alberg30
wrote:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>About a month ago we discussed placement of
additional batteries in the A30. I plan to have one starter battery, and two
deep cells.I want to place the deep cell batteries in the second well space
forward of the engine compartment (thats the big sloped well in the newer
A30). I will make a flat spot and the mount the batteries there, then run the
cables aft.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My previous setup, had all the batteries in the
space just forward of the engine. Three batteries won't fit there
now.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Question: Can I drill a hole through the
fiberglass liner/pan partition that divides these two wells, in order to run
battery cables aft to the engine and electrical panel? Does anyone know, is
that partition just fiberglass, or is there any sort of metal grid
reinforcement maybe in the liner pan?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Holes will have to be kind of big ( maybe 1") to
allow #4 cable or bigger.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks in advance;</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Joe #499</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"One Less Traveled"</FONT></DIV>
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