Rick, She has a house bank of 3 group 27s and a starting battery. Maybe I should just get a solar panel now. I had a small one I would hook up when leaving the boat on lolita. I also understand keeping your batteries topped up prolongs their life. We usually use the boat every weekend and do weekends on her here and there and then, we plan on doing maybe 2 one week cruises around the islands here. We do have a refer and use lights, charging tablets and phones. Just your regular convenience type usage. Danny
Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device-------- Original message --------From: Rick Brass via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> Date: 2/27/2016 7:48 PM (GMT-05:00) To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Cc: Rick Brass <rickbr...@earthlink.net> Subject: Re: Stus-List Stus-list: portable generator on sale at harbor freight Danny; How long will your boat be left on the mooring between uses? I have a house bank of (4) group 27 deep cycles (460AH when they were new in 2011, probably less now), and a 95AH deep cycle battery for a start bank. I almost always leave the switch so the house bank is powering the bilge pump, and usually forget to switch to the start battery to start the engine…. and frequently forget to switch to “ALL” when the engine is running and charge the start battery. I rarely plug into shore power, so the only charging is from the engine during the 30 minutes or so it takes to get sails up and to get out of the channel. For the most part the boat gets used on an average of once every two weeks – though it may go for two months or more in spring and fall, and when I’m busy with other commitments in the summer. And the boat has never failed to start. Thinking back to recent use, I ran the engine for a couple of hours in mid-September when returning from a charity regatta. Then the boat sat until a day sail in mid-October, when it got about an hour of run time. The day after Thanksgiving I ran the engine for about 10 minutes when I moved the boat to a different slip for the Christmas display. Then about 10 minutes on the day after New Years to get it back to the regular slip. I took a friend and his son out for a day sail on February 17th (55 degrees F feels like winter to me. My friend and his son were in shorts and flip flops. 55 degrees must feel like early summer to folks from New Hampshire.) and the batteries were showing 12.6v when I went to the boat that day. You may be overly worried about the need to maintain the batteries, unless you are letting the boat sit for months at a time or you are powering your bilge pump from the start bank. And if maintaining the batteries is your only reason for the generator, you might think about getting one of those battery chargers with a boost feature for jump starting the engine. It would be a lot cheaper and a lot more portable than the generator. Rick BrassWashington, NC From: CnC-List [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Danny Haughey via CnC-List Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2016 5:07 PM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Cc: Danny Haughey <djhaug...@juno.com> Subject: Re: Stus-List Stus-list: portable generator on sale at harbor freight No way I'm dragging 2 group 27s in and out of the dink every time I go out. Wouldn't be long before one ended up in the drink. .. lol Danny Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device-------- Original message --------From: "Dennis C. via CnC-List" <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> Date: 2/27/2016 4:19 PM (GMT-05:00) To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Cc: "Dennis C." <capt...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Stus-List Stus-list: portable generator on sale at harbor freight Buy 2 extra batteries, take them home, charge them, swap them out. Repeat. Half the price of the generator.Dennis C.On Feb 27, 2016 10:08 AM, "Danny Haughey via CnC-List" <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote:Well, I'm mostly interested in a way of keeping batteries typed up. I'll be keeping the boat on a mooring. Ideally I'd install a properly designed solar charging system but I'm trying to kick that can down the road. Danny
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