[Rhodes22-list] battery installation

[Rik Sandberg]

Brad,

I'm with Rummy. Simpler is better. I am seriously considering not replacing 
the battery that resides under my settee and only having the one that lives 
in the compartment next to the head. (between head and settee) If you want 
to spend some money, you can go out and buy some LED cabin lights and other 
low draw stuff (anchor light, etc.) to replace your standard incandescent 
stuff with. This will simplify your wiring chores a whole bunch and these 
LED's are supposed to live up to 100,000 hours so you will have a lot less 
bulb replacing to do. Simpler again. The LED stuff is certainly not to the 
point where you could call it inexpensive yet. If you compare it to 
replacing a couple of batteries, a couple of times though, and who knows 
how many light bulbs, it starts to look a lot more reasonable.

I just ordered a new LED type area light for the cabin, day before 
yesterday. Of course, I haven't received it yet, let along gotten it 
installed, so I can't tell you how it works. If it works well though, I may 
replace most of the more highly used light on my boat with these. If you 
are interested, I ordered this from a fellow that hangs out in the TSBB 
named Jobst Vandrey. He has started building these things and is offering 
them for sale. You can get in touch with him at his web site, A Comfortable 
Pocket Yacht. Here's a link so you can check it out if you 
like.  http://www.geocities.com/jvandrey/flicka_led.html

Have fun,
Rik


At 11:23 AM 11/3/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>The front of the V-berth is a good location for the battery selector, but why
>do you need that much power? My battery gives me 185 amp hours. Running
>everything I have, I have approximately 18 hours of power. That includes all
>the lights, pumps (washdown pump also...big draw) and stereo.
>The second battery just adds a lot of weight unless you are doing some
>serious long distance sailing and won't have shore power capabilities for
>more than a week.
>
>Rummy......a true believer in the K.I.S.S. system.
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