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[Music] [Music] you so today how to sharing my passion and our lessons learned from working on a lot of boats both here in Vancouver on the island and on the Sunshine Coast and it's about the takeaway the subtitle there is really important it's about improving your boat's electrical system it's very rare that we ever get on a situation where we start from scratch there's no electrical at all and we build it it happens we'll probably do about five of those projects a year but that's that's pretty rare we're actually doing a complete built so it's about improving your electrical system making it better so before we get started cell phones off please if you think it's off can you please make sure it's off it's gonna be a little bit distracting I'm also going to leave questions we've got all these different building blocks that we're going to be targeting and talking about today we're going to leave questions at the end because there's a lot of content related and then we can pause go through everything we learnt recap and then ask your questions at the end of each section take I recommend taking lots of notes I'm going to be giving a lot of information that's gonna be useful to all of you for your own boats and that was the question I'm gonna make sure that the slides are provided online so that you can have actually get that as well alright so here's sort of the agenda of what we're gonna be talking today we're gonna talk about storage of energy we're gonna talk about how do you generate power how do you distribute that power how do you monitor your system and then we're going to talk about even further power distribution galvanic protection and we're gonna briefly get into safety fusing circuit breakers so for some of you that don't know me I'm Jeff Cote with Pacific yacht systems and I'm just gonna go through these points really quickly but big thing that I think the takeaway that I like to emphasize with everyone is the passion that my company and myself have related to electrical systems on boats it's sort of my fixation in life and I take as an desginer I take a really sister maduk approach that i want to share with you today about electrical is not magical people used to and i remember when i started voting people would blame electrical for a lot of things making it the the culprit blaming the wires for not being reliable that electrical isn't but there's nothing more beautiful than electrical because it's actually something tangible it's predictable it's like water there's a flow to it and so what I'm gonna try to instill in all of you today is to really look at electrical not blame the electrical itself but maybe blame the way it was put into your boat or how things are wired but when things are done properly it works it really works and the other thing too is for some of you that might not know our team we take at the time every month - right now we've been doing tech talks and Pacific yachting for about eight years and we also right now for Northwest yachting magazine down in Washington State and Oregon we have a monthly column so if you're kind of into this stuff and I use the term geeking out if you're really curious about how things work we take the time to write two columns every month so that's another way for you guys and for gals to learn about more about electronics hot wires more about electronics and then tech talk is about electrical and electronics all right a little bit about the company just so you know I believe that you get good at anything by repetition you don't get good because you're smart you good by practice so it's same thing with your boat you know don't don't be too daunted take it tackle a challenge know that if you have limited experience over time it will get easier I remember when I bought my boat in 2006 I was extremely humbled by how everything looked complicated but over time I'm the same person and just as I learn more about my own boat and other boats things are getting easier so you're gonna get overtime on your own boat more comfortable our business is predominantly based in here in the Lower Mainland we have a technician on the coast and also on Vancouver Island the other big takeaway is and this year we did about a thousand boat projects which were really proud about and we also did 90 mode electrical design consultant services so we have owners and voters that are from around the world we've got some voters in Venezuela Singapore Abu Dhabi anywhere people are building boats and they come to us and they say hey Jeff you know how would I build out my boat I might not be doing it myself but I'm gonna have a crew that's gonna build a boat for me or I'm gonna help and I think that the take away with all of this which to me resonates a lot is when you build a house or you build anything work from plans right take the time if you're gonna work on your own boat and you're gonna tackle the project think about it first conceptually what am I going to do and I was sharing with Nick yesterday or two this morning another boater that we're working on right now is that at the beginning of your project you should not get a sense of satisfaction the moment you start a project on your boat because the first time you start doing anything on your boat you should have a really good plan on what you're gonna want to achieve and how are you gonna do it and at the beginning you're not really doing anything that looks productive but that's the time when you're actually thinking about how everything's gonna play out and then you get busy and you execute and I always relate I don't come from a really big desgin background everything in my family was construction and I think about how construction projects are built nobody just shows up with a hammer a bunch of wood and starts building they have an idea of what they're gonna do how they're gonna do it takes a lot of preparation and then you execute so that's a really big takeaway and then for some of you that want more resources definitely check out our website we've got thousands of articles literally videos we're probably over 200 videos now and if you really want to get into a topic we have all these specific videos on different things that we're gonna be talking about today as well alright so as we talked about I want everyone to have this in the background is that at the end of the day this is electricity right safety first a lecture so you can either burn you or kill you faulty electrical and this is true it's not an exaggeration will cause electrical fires I mean that's something that's always in the back of my mind that's something that as a boater you should also think about you know I mean at the end of the day there's a code for a reason and that's the point is the code was built not to annoy you it's best lessons what are the things that other voters have learnt through time and that common knowledge comes back and says you might not know why they're telling you to do that but I've never seen a code honestly and people get frustrated about code recommendations I'm always going no there's a reason just if you don't know take the time to understand the reason why they did that and then you'll be like oh okay that makes sense but there is a reason to why they recommend serving things on your boat VI mu IC and then the other thing too is hire pros you might be an owner I have I have voters that you know have no technical background that do great work and I have other voters that have a technical background that do bad work so you know you never know it's all about in the end of the day if you're gonna tackle a project on your boat is take do do it with care and do it not slowly but methodically do it and think about what you're gonna do and do everything and be lab pro right don't just do it yourself but take the time to do it right and that's really important do it right that's gonna be a big takeaway today always going to be that's sort of my motto I tell that to you know we've got a team we're about 14 people in our company and I'm always that's the thing is like do it right do it properly do it safe that's really big all right so now giving you a little bit more information on what we're gonna be talking about today we're gonna talk about storage of energy what is that that's batteries we're gonna talk about power generation well power generation has there's always you know commonly people can think about an alternator a charger it could be solar fuel cells AC generators it could be even wind generator tow gen and then you've got Vulcan now you've got this power but how do I share this power amongst different battery banks you know and a lot of boats will have two battery banks three battery banks for battery banks five battery banks how do you have one source charge multiple things that's power sharing and we'll talk about two different approaches to that battery combiners and battery Isolators we're going to look into monitoring you no and I'm a huge proponent about knowing where you are not literally in terms of a GPS but in terms of where your batteries are at knowing how much you draw from them you information is power and that takes the whole magic out of oh my battery suddenly died no they didn't suddenly died for some reason they gradually got there how do they get there would have been told by a monitor sort of like having a fuel gauge on your car or not having one if you don't have a fuel gauge in your car you're often going to run out of gas and it's not because the gas or your car is unpredictable it's because you don't have a monitoring system to be able to anticipate the fuel or the battery's running out we're going to talk about power distribution we're going to talk about safety and we're also going to talk a little bit about galvanic protection