All things electrical

Well, it's now been a couple of weeks since we replaced that pesky battery and the voltage regulator.  I'm happy to say that with a new battery and the regulator keeping things properly charged when the engine is running things are looking brighter in the cabin :)

We're on our 4th day here in this canalside stop and haven't run the engine in that time.  Weather has been a bit hit and miss with sun / clouds / rain and the batteries are still at 97%.  Nothing to complain about there. When the solar is running at full tilt it puts about 15 amps into the batteries.

Getting the 60kg battery in and out was a bit of a challenge but not insurmountable.  4" square hardwood lying around with a couple of stainless fittings and some spare rope and I had a really usable pulley system.

Raising and lowering the battery one stair at a time means that it's always under control.

And eventually it makes it here.

And this is the voltage regulator that was only charging at a maximum of 13.8 volts.

The regulator has now been replaced with one that gets the voltage up to 14.5 volts.  The end result is that instead of us arriving at a marina and plugging in the power and immediately charging the batteries, when we get there and plug in the batteries are already charged.