Once the lower capacity, automatic ‘maintenance’ bilge pump was in place, it was time to add the ‘oh shit’ pump – this ones sole purpose was to pump out a ton of water in as short as time as possible.… Continue reading
So the boat when I bought it had just one bilge pump, a lil 500GPM one with a float switch A few problems with this – 500GPM is a not very power bilge pump at all, and won’t be… Continue reading
So a bedside light doesn’t work, and hasn’t since I got the boat. Hmm, what could be wrong? I finally had a bit of time to investigate. Lets unscrew the middle and have a look! Oh… that can’t be… Continue reading
Ok! Its been a little over a month as a liveaboard in Fisherman’s Wharf, and in that time I went from not having any kind of power or lights at all, cushions, or water, to having BOTH types of power,… Continue reading
In celebration I made a brief walkthrough
Finally the last thing to do was hook up all the circuits to the panel. Rather then add yet more endless pictures of wires and circuits, I’ll just have one – the little bus bar I ran all the lights… Continue reading
The next stage was to get the integrated multimeter working. This required running 4 separate wires back to the batteries/shunt from the panel – which was annoying. Even more annoying was that 2 of them had to be twisted together the… Continue reading
One thing that needed to be done was install a fuse within 7 inches of the battery. I decided to use a Marine Rated Battery Fuse (MRBF) with a 200amp fuse – it was a bit higher than the 100amp… Continue reading