Swendy666

Ok I don’t think I’ve made myself fully clear. The batteries are at full charge every day. So full in fact that the solar stops sending charge to them. We can go to bed at night and due to it being dark we do take some out of the Batteries. If we have the big 43’’ tv on for more than 6 hours at night the generator will kick in and fully charge the batteries. As I said, the batteries are at full charge most of the time. I have now rang sky and they have confirmed that the 240v box will work with a 12v tv We have now ordered a Cello 32’’ 12v and the bigger 240v can go and meet its maker. thanks for all the advice given I think most comments were about the state of my batteries, these have never been a problem due to 3 x 300amp solars extra capacity alternators and a Generator back up.

By Cheers for that Hopefully it should be ok to buy the tv now. Not sure I understand the change of regime? We are full time live aboard so it’s hard to change that

I must admit there was nothing wrong with my 12v side either! but there was not enough feed from the 12v side to allow the inverter to auto switch back to shoreline feed. it appeared the the extra power the missus used had melted one of the terminals in the switch. I bypassed the isolation switch an hey presto inverter turn back to shoreline New switch purchase job done.

Cheers for that Hopefully it should be ok to buy the tv now. Not sure I understand the change of regime? We are full time live aboard so it’s hard to change that

I don’t think I made myself clear on this. The battery isolated switch has two terminals but are both 12v live check the feed in should be 12v then check the feed out should be 12v to inverter. you may find that the excess voltage has melted the switch internally If the power is the same in and out it’s not that, but I feel it will read less going out which is why the inverter does not have enough power to internally trip back to shore line.

I had this problem a couple of weeks ago, it took up the whole weekend. I ripped everything out but couldn’t find the problem until the only thing left was the isolated switch. i checked the load in 12.4v load out 1v it looked perfect but bridges over the terminals.... perfect the inverter had enough power to change back to shoreline. £52 new isolated switch job done

Hi we don’t have a problem with power, we run the engine in a morning for hot water and at night for same. we have a 3 k inverter and a 1k iron if the missus does a hot wash it’s while the boat runs for the water to warm up. the batteries only reduce if the telly is on late in the night. If they get to 54% the internal generator kicks in, not good if you’re moored close to someone. All I need to do is change the tv but will the 240v skybox run with a 12v tv

We have given up our life living on a marina, the decision wasn’t to hard as during the lockdown I had to work from home and the signal in the Mariana was woeful at best! This has now changed our view of living on a Marina! We haven’t missed a thing, in fact we’ve enjoyed our boat life more. We run 8 140amp batteries fed by solar plus 2 alternaters and everything we need to live a good Life on the cut. We have a washing machine two fridge freezers and 65ft to play in. ok so now you know our set up here’s the question! We also have sky tv and a 43’’ tv. The skybox and everything else can be left on indefinitely and the batteries charge is around 78 when we go to bed and 67 when we get up. We have now realised as the nights draw in that the tv uses stupid amounts of power. We are changing this for a 32’’ 12v Does anyone know if a 240v skybox can plug in and work in a 12v tv?