Last year i had problems with my yanmar eating my belt, after a long and nasty travel my alternator get stuck and so i find that the inside bearings when too hot they were not turning freely and so the stress to the belt was very hight eating the belt because the friction.
Now one year after i had changed the alternator i have belt dust again in the engine. If i have 4 trojan 6v 16lp for a total of 820 amp, can be that the alternator is begin stressed too much ? It is the standard 80 amp alternator that came original in the yanmar engine. Do i need to change the charging system to a balmar with serpentine pulley system ? What house bank do you have and what alternator do you use ? I have a h41 and when traveling i use two fridges all the nav system and the autopilot and i star the engine every 8 hrs to charge the house bank. The Panda plant does not like to run with heavy seas it will protect and shut up alone, so my engine is my only charging system under nav. No solar cell because i only sail 4 days in a row 2 or 3 times in a year... it does not making sense to spend on a solar system if i have allready a generator. What do you think?
Now one year after i had changed the alternator i have belt dust again in the engine. If i have 4 trojan 6v 16lp for a total of 820 amp, can be that the alternator is begin stressed too much ? It is the standard 80 amp alternator that came original in the yanmar engine. Do i need to change the charging system to a balmar with serpentine pulley system ? What house bank do you have and what alternator do you use ? I have a h41 and when traveling i use two fridges all the nav system and the autopilot and i star the engine every 8 hrs to charge the house bank. The Panda plant does not like to run with heavy seas it will protect and shut up alone, so my engine is my only charging system under nav. No solar cell because i only sail 4 days in a row 2 or 3 times in a year... it does not making sense to spend on a solar system if i have allready a generator. What do you think?