Good Morning All,
Several months ago I posted about possibly sailing our C310 to the Caribbean. Since then, my Bride and I have had serious discussions and have decided that we are going to take off on my 40th birthday (June 2015) and sail south until our money runs out or we get bored.
I have a long list of upgrades and improvements that I will be doing to our C310 for this trip. The first up is the electrical charging system.
I have gone back and forth with Mainesail, Stu and others on some suggestions and thought I would reach out to the C310 group to see what you think of my proposed upgrade.
The motivation for the upgrade is to have a larger house bank size for when we go cruising and get an efficient charge distribution set up with several different ways to charge the batteries. The charging options for cruising are likely to be the alternator, solar panels, shore power and a Honda e2000 generator that I could run while on a mooring or the hook. I am not currently planning on a wind generator, but that could change during our shakedown cruise down the East Coast.
I have attached a wiring diagram of what I am proposing.
The basics of the upgrade are to add a starter battery, put the two 4Ds in series to increase the house bank, add a battery monitor, add an automatic charge relay (ARC) with starter isolation, a dual circuit battery switch (instead of the "1,2,both" switch) and set up the charging distribution to be more efficient.
I will be adding solar panels down the line so I want the upgrade to be set up for an easy add when it's time for the solar panels.
I have uploaded a photo from Mainesail's site that has an example of the charging distribution system I plan to mimic.
I also uploaded a photo of the potential locations I intend to install these components.
I have estimated this project at about $600. So any suggestions on cost savings would be good too.
So please take a look and let me know what you think. I am open to all opinions and suggestions on this upgrade.
Thanks and fair winds.
JK
Several months ago I posted about possibly sailing our C310 to the Caribbean. Since then, my Bride and I have had serious discussions and have decided that we are going to take off on my 40th birthday (June 2015) and sail south until our money runs out or we get bored.
I have a long list of upgrades and improvements that I will be doing to our C310 for this trip. The first up is the electrical charging system.
I have gone back and forth with Mainesail, Stu and others on some suggestions and thought I would reach out to the C310 group to see what you think of my proposed upgrade.
The motivation for the upgrade is to have a larger house bank size for when we go cruising and get an efficient charge distribution set up with several different ways to charge the batteries. The charging options for cruising are likely to be the alternator, solar panels, shore power and a Honda e2000 generator that I could run while on a mooring or the hook. I am not currently planning on a wind generator, but that could change during our shakedown cruise down the East Coast.
I have attached a wiring diagram of what I am proposing.
The basics of the upgrade are to add a starter battery, put the two 4Ds in series to increase the house bank, add a battery monitor, add an automatic charge relay (ARC) with starter isolation, a dual circuit battery switch (instead of the "1,2,both" switch) and set up the charging distribution to be more efficient.
I will be adding solar panels down the line so I want the upgrade to be set up for an easy add when it's time for the solar panels.
I have uploaded a photo from Mainesail's site that has an example of the charging distribution system I plan to mimic.
I also uploaded a photo of the potential locations I intend to install these components.
I have estimated this project at about $600. So any suggestions on cost savings would be good too.
So please take a look and let me know what you think. I am open to all opinions and suggestions on this upgrade.
Thanks and fair winds.
JK
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