Marine Electrical – Sailing Banjo

Preparation: Removing our Perkins Boat Engine

06,November, 201807,November, 2018 Sailor

Today was a busy day. This morning, we received a knock on the hull and found Gary, one of the Deaton’s Yacht Service employees, requesting to come aboard. We welcomed him and took a couple minutes to listen to his plan for removing our Perkins boat engine. We decided to remove the engine due to finding sea water on top of the pistons and water in our engine oil. Early in our discussions with the boatyard, I expressed an interest in learning as much as possible about the engine. Gary…

Victron BMV-712 Smart Battery Monitor Review

28,September, 201812,October, 2018 Sailor

A month and a half ago, we upgraded our house bank battery monitor. We went from a Victron BMV-602 to a Victron BMV-712 Smart Battery Monitor. We re-wired our existing monitor to our engine start battery so we could monitor it separately. In this post, we are going to give you our impressions and review of the Victron BMV-712 Smart Battery Monitor. Background A few months ago, we performed some major re-work of our house bank. At the time, we discovered our house battery bank was at the end…