Hi John. Super helpful techniques for building essential skills in the book! Back to sailing after years away so they’re…
Hi Evan, Yes, the real question is what is important to you and what you want to optimize for. I…
Thank you Eric. I hope it’s OK to take this discussion a little off-topic. We were considering the alternator load’s…
Hi Drew, Your first use case of no alternator output can be done in a few different ways depending…
Hi Evan and John, A slightly different perspective on this might be to focus on the generator charging. If I…
Hi Peter, Totally hear you on “magazine edits seemed to protect some advertisers”! Another reason I stopped writing for them.…
Hi Robert, Interesting indeed, particularly that the cat went stern over bow, or bow over stern (hard to see). Not…
ok – I currently have the largest alternator I could fit on my Beta Marine 25hp motor (120a, because this…
Hi Evan, I agree it would be good to have a clean way of calculating the max safe alternator load,…
Hi Brann, Sure more meat around the hole might be good, but if memory serves I ran it through a…
Yes. 100A of charging from this engine is a little underwhelming. I’ve considered this question in detail; but, I won’t…
Thanks Eric. I did not think it would be a problem as the engine comes stock with a 160A alternator;…
Hi John, Thank you for this post and also for creating this whole forum, the comments on this page are…
Hi Joseph, It has worked fine for me and others, but that’s in Excel. I also just checked it again…
Hi Evn, I had a Cummins 6 natural aspirated and used a 200 amp alternator down rated to 175 for…
Hi Richard, Absolutely agree, and I won’t be changing any of that. Where I was wrong was in assuming that…
Hi Iain, To add to Eric’s comment, most electronic tacs can also be readjusted. I have had to do this…
John, you suggest you are about to adjust previous comments on “white space” power in other articles. The analysis presented…
An excellent piece of work. I am an electrical engineer, so the specifics of the calculations I cannot comment but…
Thank you Eric, While burning less diesel is a worthy goal, it would not be the only metric of success.…