Alternator upgraded to a Balmar 120A alternator with serpentine belt conversion and a MC-614 regulator. Tachometer display replaced and tachometer calibrated for the new alternator. In a previous post, I wrote about the risks of damaging the alternator when switching to lithium batteries and different ways of how to protect the alternator. Protecting your alternator … More Alternator upgrade
In this post, I will try to explain how to protect your alternator and what we decided to do regarding our alternator. Especially regarding the following
– Protecting the alternator from overheating
– Protecting the alternator from a load dump
– Increase charging from the alternator … More Protecting your alternator when switching to lithium
I will try to catch up and write about everything that we have to in our preparations since May. Before and during the summer, everything was kind of hectic, and then I didn’t get started with writing about everything that we had already done. I will start with the bow-roller, windlass, and the issues I … More Anchor roller and deceptive store manager
When planning to sand the hull to racefinish, I could not leave the saildrive and propeller the way it was. The brass on the propeller needed polishing, and the saildrive required both sanding and additional coats of epoxy. I started with sanding the saildrive and the brass with 240 grit sandpaper. For the saildrive this … More Saildrive and propeller clean up
We just wanted to add a bow windlass but ended up rebuilding the whole anchor box… We currently had no bow windlass. In the Baltic Sea, you seldom anchor from the bow. Most of the times you anchor with the bow to land and an anchor in the stern. A more permanent bow anchor with … More Plastic Fantastic – New anchor box
The ugly duckling desperately needed some love, sanding, and polishing. Amazing what will happen if you take the time to refurbish your gel coat. The plan was to rub and polish the gel coat thoroughly last winter. But last spring was an icy spring, and we did not get running water at the marina until … More Magic Gel Coat
Most of all the electrical wiring is complete. Some small parts remained that I needed to complete. The hidden relay functionality There is a great Facebook group regarding lithium batteries on boats. After my installation of the battery pack, I posted a comment regarding my Lithium installation. I can recommend anyone considering lithium to join … More Finishing up electrical installation
Not my tidiest job but hopefully it will work… The whole rewiring of all the cables, installation of new lithium batteries, new charger/inverter, etc. all started with the fridge. The fridge could not keep cool with a hot summer even if we ran it on manual with almost full power. There was also a considerable … More Added isolation on the icebox
Last week a lot of things got done. Had a week of saved vacation from five years ago that I needed to use before the end of March this year. Not the best timing since it’s still too cold to do some of the needed work outside. The fiberglass work for the anchor box got … More A week with a long list of small stuff that got fixed
After so much work and preparation I could finally install my LiFeYPO4 battery! Delivery and initial voltage check I ordered my cells from a large reseller here in Europe. They have relatively large volumes, and I would not need to pay too high shipping cost or a customs/tax/handling cost. To reduce the shipping cost, I … More Finally Lithium on Liv!
