Tag: electrics
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Suited, booted, and wired
Blue Opal is back to two house batteries now, in a parallel arrangement. I ordered a whole bunch of parts from Marine Parts Direct, and a Draper battery terminal crimper from Amazon (the club doesn’t have one, and doing it with a spanner and a hammer didn’t seem right), and have spent some hours over…
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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,…
