Part Shout-Outs: What add-on do you love?

[Captain Larry-DH]

Some of the best, hard to choose: Autopilot, Electric windless, Electric winches, Lazy Jacks, CP/AIS/Radar together, automated fog horn, 12v fridge, but #1 is adding enough solar/battery capacity to KEEP IT ALL CHARGED without running the engine.

 

[NotCook]

At some point we'd like to go from 110vac fridge to 12vdc, but we will need to increase our 12 battery capacity to do that. Then our genset use will drop dramatically, which will cut our fuel expenses to near nothing annually as 90% of our fuel goes to the genset.

We didn’t increase our battery capacity at all when we went to 12V refrigeration. We increased our solar from 125W to 425W. We had been running the generator 3 times a day just to keep the refrigerator cold. We haven’t found an issue with the fridge running the batteries down at night. Most of the demand is in the heat of the day.