Category: Sailing
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Battery diagram for Blue Opal
Courtesy of Dad, I have an easy-to-maintain set of wiring diagrams for Blue Opal. These diagrams are built using a text format called dot, and turned into an image automatically using Graphviz. The source for this particular diagram can be found here. [graphviz] graph hierarchy{ node [shape=record, fontname=”Arial”,fontsize=8, style=filled]; edge [penwidth=3]; label=”Blue Opal Wiring Diagram:…
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Further work with the Sterling ProSplit R
Sunday saw more work on the installation of the ProSplit R; I had already got all of the terminals wired up by Saturday, or so I thought. However, it turns out that I’d missed the part in the instructions about the positive terminal that needs a take-off from the D+/61/L terminal of the alternator (as…
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Sterling ProSplit R mounting template
When documenting the various power cables that run through Blue Opal, I checked the output voltage of the alternator, and the voltage flowing in to the batteries. There was approximately a 1V drop, which comes from the diode splitter that was fitted years ago. Since I’m not in a marina, or otherwise on shore power,…
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New fender ropes
The collection of fenders for Blue Opal had everything from 4 mm braid on braid (a recent acquisition after the storms that went through Ireland) to 10 mm three-strand. Some of it was stiff, another was completely frayed. A nice little job today, while I was off sick, was sitting down with a length of…
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Adventures in ESP8266 land (1/n)
Given Blue Opal’s data network is linked to a ShipModul that beacons the data on a wireless network, I felt like it would be kind of neat to build my own data logger that can log all the data that the ShipModul is broadcasting. As mentioned in another post, I currently use iNavX on an…
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Spring sail, and the autohelm is borked again
The replacement bulbs for the head and engine lights have arrived. Alas, I found out today that while I got the size and fitting type right, I hadn’t noticed that the existing bulbs are the ones with two contacts on the bottom that twist in to place when the bulb is locked into the bayonet…