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Hello hello, Needing some advice about finding a good, but affordable, solution to flat batteries. Bluebell is a little 23' cruiser with a Honda outboard of 9.9 HP. When we were only exploring and moving it on weekends for 5-6 hours a day, the batteries were doing really well, but now that we're back to work and more settled, moving only one day a week/fortnight, we've had problems with the batteries. We have one startup and one leisure. It seems that the startup is too low, so we seem to be running of the leisure battery, which is not working very well (lights dropping intensity and flickering a couple of days after moving the boat). My SO and I are both out of the house from 7/8am to about 9pm, so we haven't been able to let it idle daily. We've tried to counteract it by using the batteries minimally, charging phones at work etc unless in an emergency, only using one light and candles/fairy lights, etc. We don't use any other 12v appliances, so mostly the batteries are powering the water pump and 1-2 LEDs for a couple of hours a day. Anyhow, we've only just bought the boat so are really skint. We want to invest in solar panels, a mains charger, a traction battery, and a generator but dont have the 3odd grand to fund all those purchases at once. What would you all suggest as a first purchase? Considering the cost of a gennie, would solar panels (which are in our planned budget) serve the purpose of getting our batteries back to scratch and maintaining them? Or do we need to invest in a gennie/panels/charger all at once? We've only just bought the boat and spend 2k kitting it out internally, and adding all of the above amounts to the cost of the boat (though I suppose we can take them with us when we leave) so if we can buy these things in stages that would help. Also, we don't have a place to store the gennie unless we build a storage area onto the stern... All of these are worries... Someone suggested transporting the batteries to an on-land friend's house and charging them back up there, but that seems intrusive and difficult and we'd much rather have a long term solution that works. Would be most grateful for any and all advice Thank you, Micha
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Hi, we have a vetus 6kw generator installed on our boat for which we cannot get hold of a key to open the box. It is in an enclosed box as it is a hospital generator and very quiet but we have searched everywhere for a key or tool to open it and not come up with anything. Don't even know what it is called. Plus we have a problem in that the generator is not taking up raw water now and therefore not getting enough coolant and we can't use it. Can't even get at it to see if it is the water pump. All suggestions gratefully received.
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hello everyone, I'm thinking of buying a Senci SC2000i Inverter Petrol Generator (2000kw max, 1600kw continuous ). Has anyone got or use one? Are they any good? How long would you estimate it would take to charge three 110ah leisure batteries from 50%?
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Does anybody have any helpful tips on powering our 60 by 10 wide beam to make us as off grid as possible. I need advice in all aspects and I'm not sure where to start. any websites, phone numbers or general advice will be gratefully received.