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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

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