Since you are getting the new batteries anyway you may as well just see if they take care of things. If it used to work fine the problem probably is worn out cells.
If the E meter is funky you could replace or get simpler, less sophisticated (and cheaper) ones from Sevcon or Curtis. You might even be fine with a simple voltmeter and a little chart relating voltage to state of charge.
Denny
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From: dberson1
To: electricboats@
Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2009 6:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Electric Boats] batteries
Dennis: You are a good man and I appreciate your information; I've had intermittent troulbe with the emeter for years. Sometimes it reads to low or too high then Ijust disconnect it and zero it out. I'm comitted to the new batteries though I don't look forward to changing 8 of the beasts. Do you know anybody in the are that I can hire to take a look at this very complex electrical system. Elco went through many engineers and none of them are around. I charge the boat all winter and had enough power to do sea trials the day before my power crapped out. Also I had 50 volts going to my motor. It really is a mystery to me. I really need to thire someone to go over the boat. We havebn't yet put the solar installation up. That will include panals on an adjoing roof run through an inverter. From there I will just plug in the boat. How it works I can't tell yet. This is the result of a two year program with the kids from a local High School. It will cost me nothing I hope. Keep me posted. By the way did you ever get in touch with Chuck.
Thank's again. David Berson
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