fallguy1000 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 8:14 am
It sounds awesome, but I'd have a hard time getting 6 people. I want to do salmon and grayling.
Perhaps a BBC group will fall together for an epic meetup here at some point
Knowing you are interested I might message you at some point if we have a partial boat booked that alligns with your interests.
Wakespeed regulators arrived yesterday.
Landon heated the boat for me after school and I went out after a quick dinner to do something productive. Had one last firmware update I thought I would do quick first. The Multiplus inverter/charger. It had a warning that it would reset values to default and I would need to download config file before up update and upload it again after. Simple enough right?
Update went smooth and went to update the config afterwords and clicking on the upload button on the app wouldn't let me select a file. I googled a bunch and couldn't figure it out. Meanwhile the inverter was working fine but the charger wasn't charging the single start battery I have wired into the system while I'm changing everything over for the new install. Loads were coming half from the battery and half from shore power.
I shut off the heaters and lights and went into the house and used my laptop. It seems the configuration can only be done on a laptop and easily created a new configuration file with a battery profile and uploaded it and everything was working and charging properly again. (Now I know I'll need to do that when I plug in the new batterys as well)
I don't have any solar installed yet but it's interesting looking around the app which has a solar irradiance forecast (I assume based on gps* location?)
Panels are rated at a "peak solar" rating of 1000w/m2
So 200 means the panels would put out about 20% of their rated power. So 3hrs over 200 would give me about 60% of rated power for today if I had them installed. 2400 * 60% = 1440wh
These things always get me thinking about ideal off-grid power management here. Solar isn't very practical in the winter here. But it's cold in the winter here, so a combination of solar and diesel generator with heat recovery loop instead of radiator seems ideal to me. Our village power plant which I work part time for heats the community building (clinic/post office/firetruck garage) as well as the school and teacher housing complex all with waste heat.
*GPS - the cerbo recognizes the raymarine devices but I couldn't figure out how to get any of the data from them. I plugged in a USB GPS dongle to the USB hub and the Cerbo sees it fine, so may just leave that installed. It also seems my raymarine plotter may be too old to show the html5 "apps" from the Cerbo, but like I had mentioned earlier that wasn't my goal with the system so I won't put much effort into that until all the practical stuff is done. It uses lighthouse 2 operating system and I believe they want light house 3 or newer for the html5 apps.(I think) but supposedly it's pretty much plug n play for the newer main brand plotters/mfds.