Personally, I like to explore ways to have it both ways, "saving every watt" and having "convenience" too, by designing the boat to daintily sip electricity when that is desired while also having the ability go the Full Monte. The bottom end, when Bandersnatch is quiescent, is about 100 AH per day (hot climate max) for the freezer, reefer and anchor light. Of course, this can be lowered to almost zero by emptying the reefers and shutting them down even though they only take 25 watts each when running. We could still use them as ice boxes, perhaps by freezing a tub of water-filled zip-locks whilst underway (and generating electricity). On the top end, there is the 20 KW (propeller) shaft generator operating the Miller Shopmaster 300 amp welder. There is also a wide spectrum in between involving lights, music, video, Ham, computers, satellite TV, tools, A/C, heat, RO, etc. Norm S/V Bandersnatch Lying Julington Creek 30 07.695N 081 38.484W > It's not everyone's cup of tea to obsess about > saving a watt here and there. People with money hire designers like me > to build them a system that works. If saving every watt is a concern, they > generally tell me up front and we design from there. If convenience is > more important we create a different system. For people who like to obsess > over saving a few watts here and there, Ask me how. > _______________________________________________ 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
