I Would Like to Design My Own Boat, Would You Recommend a 12v, 24v or 48v System?
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hi youtubers jeff cote here with pacific yacht systems we've got a question from a fellow voter asking about what's the right battery voltage for their boat he said jeff if you had to decide on a boat battery voltage system would you choose 12 24 or 48 well this is a good theoretical question and most of us don't get to make that decision right so battery voltage has huge implications for the rest of the battery size cabling on your boat uh to be it's sort of the same difference between what was better on vhs it's not necessarily the best product that wins it's sometimes what's most popular so for a lot of us we're going to have 12 volt systems on our boat not because 12v is the perfect choice for us it's just simply that there's a lot more appliances and devices that run off 12. as the boats get bigger and bigger so around probably around 45 50 feet some boats are switching over to 24 volts and very few other than electrical propulsion vessels are going to have 48. so if i had to design a boat from scratch i'd probably design in 2024 volts it would have pretty much the amperage on all the loads uh would reduce the cable size by half which is good for weight um and also then if i had to run 12 volt loads i'd run them off a dc to dc converter we're doing that right now on another book 52 footer has 24 full boat and had a 12 volt battery for 12 volt lows replacing the 12 volt battery and just simply running off a dc to dc converter and so it simplifies so what that means in other words is now you don't have to pick and choose 12 and 24 you can actually have a 24 volt boat 24 volt batteries and have your 12 volt appliances running off a dc to dc converter and like i said before 48 volts is more for electrical propulsion it's not something that we do because we want to it's something that we do because we need to thanks for watching this video if you've got further questions that we didn't answer please ask them below or go on our website and fill up one of the forms and lastly if you haven't subscribed to our channel please do so that way you'll get the regular contents and in closing thanks for watching
