Psyche

I disagree, it is not mad. Its an effort to contain an invasive species. Now that I know I will cruise elsewhere. Maybe the cat is out is the bag but Barrier deserves a chance.

Its going to be mint! were getting the bad weather now

Merry Xmas

pretty much, LH deserved the win but the officials made a pretty suspect call that allowed Max right back in touch.

All the way?

Thanks for the info, its apparent that drop ins are not quite ready for prime time, Ill probably go with carbon foam as it seems the best LA tech and pretty good value for money in the long term.

nice colour too

Max is on pole, https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.verstappen-snatches-pole-from-hamilton-in-thrilling-abu-dhabi-grand-prix.0BrCED36Vqok2dkZRKsMR.html It is going to be an epic battle 0300 Monday

If your' not deep cycling it then a car battery should be fine, the load on a starting battery is actually pretty small as long as it has the CCA you need. When you think about it you start the engine, maybe 10-15 seconds max even with glow preheating and maybe run the windlass for a few minutes.

Nearly all done!

Crashstappen or the Hamburgler for the win?

Be great to see Petrux on one instead of the KTM

Surely the BMS can be engineered to manage the profile better, given that most of the drop ins will be into a 12v system charging at 14.6. I realise that temp sensing and regulators are important especially in larger systems.

Surely the BMS can manage the charging profile?

whinging with style!

Apparently reject cells from the big manufacturers are bought for cheap and packaged up into the odd brands we see giving huge profit margins and bad reputations. Provided the cells are good quality it seems that the built in BMS is the key to the whole exercise, as I was saying lithiums are a common upgrade and an oem fitment to high end bikes, as a group performance biker are very onto technical benefits and there is very little chatter about lithium issues so i would imagine that cheap and nasty brands simply dont survive. In the RV/Marine world the market is huge and the tech is maturing s

Interesting, lithium battteries are a pretty standard upgrade. A typical size is 14 ah so maybe they can afford a higher quality BMS?

I have read mainesails blog extensively over the years and its probably the best yachting resource for lithium conversions and as Ladyhawk infers, complex and expensive to get right. That said, its a very common upgrade for a bike- trade the LA for a drop in lithium. I did it a year ago and its been trouble free. Hence the question for a boat. The short version from the responses is not yet! AGM and Gel al may be useful but in the end the easiest and cheapest option may be replacing like with like.

Whats the issue with windlasses? i would have thought it would be an ideal power source for one

Have used lanocote and the other henley product, its all essential the same stuff- sheep grease but presented differently.

if you use say 30 amps a day then instead of getting a FLA of about 100 or more then you could in theory get a 50 ah lithium. Lighter not too much difference in cost and many times the life

Are they ready for prime time? I see plenty advertised now at reasonable prices that include sophisiticated BMS's, you can downsize the Ah requirement because you can go so deep on the discharge The concern is that they can be a bit of bomb, make the alternator work overtime etc but the advertising is suggesting that the BMS manages that without external temperature sensors. Anyone done it, thoughts? https://www.jaycar.co.nz/12-8v-100ah-lithium-deep-cycle-battery/p/SB2215

legendary!

No one has a bigger boat than you on this board!

Heres Casey Stoner, what a great rider