I have a Honda 2000i, that is good for a hairdryer but not the use I got it for...we both like shorter hair and natural wind / sun dry...the 2000i is compact and clean but I would not want to carry it too far and it runs quiet...I can store it on the cabin sole just aft of the V berth or I can store it in the quarter berth which is the best spot when there is only 2 of us on board for cruising which is most always the case...very neat little unit and backs up power loss at home in the off season...also can run power tools where there is no other electrical...I must have for a guy who likes toys and IMHO no substitute for Honda and it has a Dc 12V outlet for battery charging
Dwight Veinot C&C 35 MKII, Alianna St. Margaret's Bay, NS -----Original Message----- From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of ahycr...@cox.net Sent: March 26, 2014 6:04 PM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Subject: Re: Stus-List Flexible Solar panels I think I'm going to go with one of those small Honda generators. They are so quiet now that you almost can't hear them. I was on a C&C 37 last year an they used it for an hour or so during the day and it worked great. We were at Block Island and 10 feet from the boat you could not hear it. Gary Kolc "Liberty" ---- Stevan Plavsa <stevanpla...@gmail.com> wrote: > I bet you'd get more milage out of insulating your ice box better. > Don Casey has a whole chapter about this in his book "good old boat". If I > ever install refrigeration on my boat I'm only doing it after an icebox > rebuild. > > To answer your question about the panel, the dodger will not help you. > Shading, even very minor shading, render the panels almost useless. See > here: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2UdCOq0A5c > > With a 65 watt (rigid) panel on my bimini top I get 3 to 3.5 amps at peak > daylight hours. That's not enough to run a fridge. Flexible panels on a > dodger won't be any better, even they are bigger. > > Steve > Suhana, C&C 32 > Toronto > _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com CnC-List@cnc-list.com
