Tips - Common Pitfalls of Installing an Inverter/Charger on a Boat
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here we are on a fellow builders boat cruiser 4:20 today we're going to be discussing some improvements that we didn't aboard the boat specifically larger battery bank for the house an inverter charger so that the owner is able or the boat is able to actually run certain AC appliances while cruising and at Anchorage away from shore power or not having to run the generator and a third thing we did was installing a battery monitor and that battery monitor allows the owner to be able to see the state of charge of the batteries in percentage and also figure out what are the draws on the battery either the draws and also the charging current so those are the three things we did on this boat all right here we are on a cruiser 420 and what we're going to talk about next is the why why did this owner bring us on board and what were they trying to achieve basically this boat was set up with large generator engines alternators but there's really no way for the owner to actually use certain AC appliances on his boat without the general connected store power so how does he run a microwave how did he have perhaps a coffee machine watch TV how does he do that without having a generator or connected to shore power so the goal here was to basically have an inverter and an inverter that will allow you to have the conveniences of a sea without short hour or generator and that device is over there in blue and for this project we decided to install the victor on energy based on the profile and it fit really well in that space and the other thing we want to do now that we were actually adding an inverter charger was originally there was actually two group thirty-one batteries for the house battery and that was not going to be sufficient to actually do what we wanted to do with the inverter because the inverter takes a lot of power and to give that power we had decided to install a new dedicated house a battery bank and here are 2 L 16 AGM batteries that we installed effectively not only doubling the amp hours but because we can bring those batteries lower in a depth of discharge it's almost effectively was probably more than twice the amount of available power that he started with so we chose a GM's because they're easy to maintain basically maintenance-free and it's really nice profiling there's a lot of space here and the last thing we also did started off with the inverter did the batteries to give power so we can run the inverter and the other thing was well how do we know what is going to be actually the state of charge of the batteries and so we ended up putting a battery monitor sort of like a fuel gauge and a speedometer so then the owner knows really what is the depth of discharge of the batteries so when it's time to recharge know when it stopped time to stop charging if the batteries are potentially full he doesn't want to spend too much time running the generator and also knowing the apps the amps being drawn or charged into batteries you
