Beccara

Why 300a? Typically your sizing the fuse to protect the wire

On our boat we only have 1 set of fuses, On the battery terminal, from there we run 25mm cable inside conduct to our distribution point where we have a setup with a BlueSea 100a breaker feeding Schneider iC60 breakers sized for the downstream wire runs. If our terminal fuse pops the problem is not going to be simple to fix so the time to change out the fuses doesn't matter, We would have to be having a cable fault to blow the fuse Always get Ignition proof fuses, It's a no brainer. You really dont want any section of your electrical setup unprotected especially if your not going for the su

Each to their own, I use the Bluesea unit IT linked to, Works fine. The pic above can't mount to the battery directly tho so you still have a risk of upstream being unprotected. However if cost is a concern and you can accept that risk you have these: https://www.lusty-blundell.co.nz/product/1842-blue-sea-mega-amg-fuse-block-100-300a-with-cover?categoryId=928 Along with the fuse: https://www.lusty-blundell.co.nz/product-group/8103-blue-sea-fuse-mega-amg/product For under $80, A bit less than the $120 for the proper battery mount

get-there-itis was my first thought when I heard a rescue was underway, Very sad overall

This was the outlook on Friday arvo: A low to the west of the South Island gradually weakens on Sunday and should fill on Monday; meanwhile a ridge is expected to build up over the country. Another low is expected to develop over the north Tasman Sea on Sunday, and approach the north of the North Island early Monday, then over the Island during late Monday and Tuesday before moving away the east late Wednesday. This system should bring rain and strong winds to much of the North Island. There is moderate confidence of rainfall accumulations reaching warning amounts in Northland, Auckl

I say this with the utmost respect for all involved and understanding of hindsight but this storm and those conditions were predicted many days in advance, Why didn't they back off and stay much further out where the seastate and winds were out of the storms path? We had atleast 24 hours notice, I think I saw the warnings on Saturday morning

It's 30kn's up at the Town Basin marina, I imagine it's 50+ gusts easy out there

Yep

The main advantage here is going to be the datacap, You can have the kids watching some Netflix fairly safely and cheaply with this service. You can't take the SIM cards and use them in any other device and the modem is generally quite a bit better reception wise and you can pair it with something like this: https://www.gowifi.co.nz/omniaaa/mtao-lte-5d-sq.html To help improve it even more

Looks like it's resold Wireless Nation which is selling something called RBI, It's Vodafone based and will be a Huawei modem and a little 12-24v boost converter. It'll be nicer than your mobile phone hotspot by a little bit but still depends on your coverage

Canisters are cheap too

Nice to see my fellow Northlanders picking up the "None of the above" option

Well sh*t The preferred option was Option 3 (go even further and make rules for other pathways too; 37%) The preferred option for hull-fouling rules was Option 1 (clean hull at all times; 42%) "Overall, there was a clear call for greater action to address marine pests across the TON regions"

Pilots know them as microbursts too and they are bloody scary

FLA burp hydrogen and can contain hot acid, They are a hazard and one that occurs enough to be aware of it and be prepared for it https://www.yachtingmonthly.com/archive/how-batteries-can-explode-and-how-to-avoid-it-3930 Thankfully most of us deal with these: And not these:

Perhaps I've missed this but was there any valid reason to cross this close? Was it that busy??? Were there too many boats to maintain 50m separation? Without any valid reason to break the regs there I don't see the reason to stand up for breaking them

Regs are regs and if you aren't following them when you have an accident then good luck with your insurance claim

It's an OPTION people, Don't like it? Don't apply for it. For whatever reason people have asked for it, They have their reasons and it isn't being forced upon anyone else.

Fuel cells, They are called FCV or FCEV and the Toyota Mirai is a good in production for sale car today. Quite a few are being made as lease only as there's concern about the fuel cells lifespan. The Mirai's got a 100k mile warranty so atleast Toyota have some faith in their stack. Almost all are using something called PEM (Proton Exchange Membrane) I've only ever touched fuel cells in a off grid methanol based capacity in telecommunications and they were hugely sensitive to fuel impurity, The primary vendor would ship fuel in from the EU as the Marsden point stuff wasn't upto spec. I thin

Yes the infrastructure is kinda somewhat there but it's been shown to be very costly to deploy, Station costs are $2-3million USD. Have ongoing electrical costs due to current storage temps being -40c. When compared to EV station costs of around $30k USD for Rapid and under $1k USD for slow (typically the ones we're seeing deployed at malls etc) the costs clearly show why EV's are leading the adoption rate. On the grid side of things, I can't speak to that Canada figure as I can't find anything about it on the net. Transpower just came out a few days ago and had this to say about high ev u

Hydrogen's will fail simply because of the infrastructure needed. Before you can even have early adopters you need the infrastructure, Electrics make sense because the infrastructure change was already done and in place, Early adopters didn't need anything new in place to use it. The next phase being early majority needed simple DC charges that can be retrofitted into existing places. Depending on how you think mass uptake would be handled you're either talking small scale onsite production + storage retrofit into suitable places or mass storage and transport both of which require significant

Some kind of setup mode?

Pure sign hands down. As IT stated the inverters aren't efficient apart from a somewhat narrow band, DC-DC's are good but limited. If you have a fairly good idea of what you want to run then size the inverter for this in it's peak band https://www.victronenergy.com/upload/documents/Output-rating-operating-temperature-and-efficiency.pdf In this document you can see that if you wanted 400-1600w of load and have 90%+ efficiency you'd be looking at the 3000va units. DC-DC converters top out at 98% for the expensive super duper ones Really comes down to what exactly you are planning

It really looks like this but with some kind of blue wrap around it. Perhaps it was one of these "drop in" FLA replacement Lithium batts I see around. Some do it right like Mastervolt, Some do it very wrong

Is it me or do those look like lithium cells? I see something looking like a cell link strap and the CALB yellow.