Well, after pulling out all the old wiring and running the boat off the DC charger as seen in the last part, the next step was to top balance the LifePO4 pack. I apologise in advance – even by the… Continue reading
Sorry this third update took a while, I was travelling for work a lot and then got some kind of hellish food poisoning/stomach flu thing which took me completely down for a while. But now I’m back and BETTER THAN… Continue reading
… or 175 days, to be exact., before I sail off and sink somewhere exotic start my circumnavigation, if I still take the 31st of May as my last work day / leaving date. I’m caught between feeling that’s soooooo far… Continue reading
Following on from the very high level design in part one, the next stage was to mount the 8 cells securely in a safe location. This actually took a while to puzzle out and as you will find out, I’m… Continue reading
I don’t want to complain too much after last years winter (where it started raining in September and didn’t stop until May, aside to snow a bunch) and this autumn has been pretty nice – but couldn’t it wait until… Continue reading
Ok before I start I gotta give a huge NERD WARNING, as this stuff is probably going to be of not much interest to virtually anyone. Except all 3 people building a LiFePO4 on their boat. So, sorry about that.… Continue reading
Painting Done Well, title says it all – I finished painting. Finally. It was a bit tricky as the kiwi-grip non-skid I was using takes over 3 days to dry hard enough to walk on with shoes – before that… Continue reading
Nice short one here but basically I’ve put two coats on everything except the non-skid (which I am doing with Kiwi-Grip) and one lazarette lid (which has one coat on it). I’m getting there! And Gudge looks pretty spick and… Continue reading