T-Pain Is On A Boat: Re: [Electric Boats] Re: Which path to take?

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Re: [Electric Boats] Re: Which path to take?

wfco power convertors, three stage charging, continuous 35 to 95 amp output, isolated so they can be put in series. I have two in my lab, they work fine. I installed two 55a units in a 24v boat motor system, and at 900w input, they can be run on a 2kw genny. $130 to $250, 13.2v output

Iota makes the same type of unit with a marine rating, 24v 40a continuous, for $365

Be Well,

Arby

From: luv2bsailin <luv2bsailin@yahoo.com>
To: electricboats@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tue, February 15, 2011 10:37:55 PM
Subject: [Electric Boats] Re: Which path to take?

Inverters are pretty efficient these days. 90% is not uncommon.
Many have built-in chargers too.

--- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, William Munger <wmunger@...> wrote:
>
> I was thinking up to a 100 amp.
> The plan is to be full time live aboard in a few years.
> I have researched and found 12volt versions of most everything and my
> thought is, why not build the system in such a way that I would only
> really use the shore power to run the battery charger. While at dock
> the charger would keep the batteries topped off even though I would be
> pulling from the house batteries. So maybe it would not really be
> cycling the batteries and wearing them out. Then while away from dock
> there would not be anything that I could not use just because I was not
> on shore power.
>
> The down side is DC versions of stuff tend to cost a lot more then the
> AC versions. But with DC to AC inverters you loose efficiency.
>