> Sounds like you are getting overly complicated. > I thought my mechanical solution was simpler than an electronic one.
Why bother taking the belt off? .Murphy's law says if you have an engine > failure it wil lbe the one with the disconnected belt. > My thought was to replace the belt with a smaller one -- not to totally disconnect it. > > If you have a properly installed alternator and your system is balanced, > it should run for several years with liteel attention needed. > If I thought my system was totally balanced, I wouldn't consider "disabling" one of the alternators. > > But if you have installed an oversize alternator and still drive the water > pump with the same belt; of course you wil lhave trouble. > I always recommend that you leave the OEM alternator in place for charging > the start battery independently. > Each of the water pumps has its own belt. > > The new high output alternator is wired seperately to your house bank. A > double shive pulley is made up that bolts to the front crankshaft pulley. In > most cases thes pulleys are already drilled and tapped for a PTO. Yanmar and > Kubota blocks are universal utlity ingines used in thousands of > applications. They are intended for power take of at both ends of the crank > shaft. sometimes you can even buy th eright pulley from an industrial > engine supplier. It isn't rocket science. > You can (unload) disable any alternator with an external regulator simply > by disconnecting the field circuit. That immediately reduces the loading on > belt and to a lesser extent the bearings. Sealed bearings in the alterantor > wil last a long time. Many years for most boat applications.If you are not > using the water pump belt to also drive the alternator, yo udon't have any > problems to deal with. > That may be the best solution -- if I can figure out how to "disconnect the field circuit." Maybe the manual for my regulator will enlighten me here. Thanks again for your help. Phil > regards > Arild > > > > -----Original Message----- > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of *Philip R. McGovern > *Sent:* Tuesday, June 03, 2008 12:02 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [Liveaboard] Fanbelt dust > > Arild: > > Thanks for the good advice. I should have thought of checking Balmar's > website myself. Duh!!! As soon as I get back to the boat, I'll find out > what sort of regulator I have and go from there. > > Since we nearly always run both engines, it also occurred to me to just > disconnect one of the alternators by just taking it off the belt (and > replacing the belt with one having a smaller diameter, of course). To even > out the wear on the alternators, I could alternate this setup from one > engine to the other every year or so. Any thoughts? Thanks again. > > Phil McGovern > s/v Sunshine > > > On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Arild Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> *From:** *Philip R. McGovern >> >> How did you reduce the amp output of your Balmar? Is it a setting on the >> alternator itself or something else? I am running two Balmar 100 amp >> alternators and I hardly ever need all of their output. I'd rather save the >> fuel (or increase the RPM;s) if there's an easy way to back them off a >> little. >> >> REPLY >> Its done with the amp manager adjustment on the regulator. The exact >> process is described in the documantation included with the regulator. >> If yo uhave lost o rmisplaced the installation / instruction manual its >> availabel for download from www.balmar.net >> >> Arild >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Liveaboard mailing list >> [email protected] >> To adjust your membership settings over the web >> http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard >> To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ >> >> To search the archives >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] >> >> The Mailman Users Guide can be found here >> http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Liveaboard mailing list > [email protected] > To adjust your membership settings over the web > http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard > To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ > > To search the archives > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > The Mailman Users Guide can be found here > http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html >
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