I know I’m way off on the refit of my Catalina 36 for this work to be happening right now, but I need to start planning this as I work on other things.
On Luna, my Catalina 30 I kept the electrical system pretty simple and straightforward, with a Sterling Power 30a charger and a basic 12v system and 120v only tied to shore power. Solar was going to be a future addition, but it never happened.
With Serenity I‘m thinking of an inverter in the power scheme as there is room for a larger battery bank.
For systems I’m thinking of water maker, AC, refrigerator, VHF, Stereo, macerator, fresh water pump, and maybe a small hot water heater.
I like how Victron’s products are capable of inter-communicating with each other as well as their status display options, but their size gets to me a bit. They are large units, even at the smaller ratings, and I’m not sure where everything will fit. I would prefer to have all the units living in the same general area and not scattered around the boat for ease of maintenance and servicing.
Ideally these units will be out of sight when the boat is in sailing condition, and I’m not interested in hiding anything inside my chart table, on in the footwell of the chart table like I see many do. I have a large space under the seat for the chart table, which seems to be a former battery bank, my seat in front of the chart table also looks like it may have held a battery bank at some time too. I’m not sure about the forward seat’s original purpose but I have seen videos of people putting batteries in there too.
So who here uses Victron, and how is your systems set up? If you don’t use Victron, what do you use and how are you set up?
On Luna, my Catalina 30 I kept the electrical system pretty simple and straightforward, with a Sterling Power 30a charger and a basic 12v system and 120v only tied to shore power. Solar was going to be a future addition, but it never happened.
With Serenity I‘m thinking of an inverter in the power scheme as there is room for a larger battery bank.
For systems I’m thinking of water maker, AC, refrigerator, VHF, Stereo, macerator, fresh water pump, and maybe a small hot water heater.
I like how Victron’s products are capable of inter-communicating with each other as well as their status display options, but their size gets to me a bit. They are large units, even at the smaller ratings, and I’m not sure where everything will fit. I would prefer to have all the units living in the same general area and not scattered around the boat for ease of maintenance and servicing.
Ideally these units will be out of sight when the boat is in sailing condition, and I’m not interested in hiding anything inside my chart table, on in the footwell of the chart table like I see many do. I have a large space under the seat for the chart table, which seems to be a former battery bank, my seat in front of the chart table also looks like it may have held a battery bank at some time too. I’m not sure about the forward seat’s original purpose but I have seen videos of people putting batteries in there too.
So who here uses Victron, and how is your systems set up? If you don’t use Victron, what do you use and how are you set up?