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Monday 28 November 2011

Banking on the Batteries....and paint

Build day 91

Powercell Industrial Battery Engineers turned up this morning and fitted Yarwood's battery bank.   We have opted for a bank 2v traction batteries with a capacity of 945 amp hours.  The traction batteries, though more expensive, allow us to discharge (use) more of their storage capacity.  We provided Powercell with details of what equipment would be aboard Yarwood and how many hours it would be used for; Powercell went away and did the calculations based on the equipment levels and our request that we would want to moor up for say three days and NOT have to run the engine/generator.

Battery bank

Another view of the battery bank...

More importantly, (woman speaking here...) the painter has started glossing the ceiling!  Chris is in all week to get the internal painting done and dusted.

Chris, decorator extraordinaire with a half painted saloon

Back cabin ceiling glossed

5 comments:

  1. That's a lot of amp hours! Are the clear pipes as automatic filling system, so you don't have to fill each cell separately? (When I say you, I mean Joe, obviously!)

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  2. (man speaking here) Those are BIG batteries!

    bob
    s/v Eolian
    Seattle

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  3. Hi Adam
    How perceptive, Yes it will be Himself who is Battery Monitor, he can add it to his Milk Monitor badge from primary school. The clear pipes are indeed for automatic fill, well semi- automatic anyway...
    X Lesley

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  4. Hi Bob
    Men are SO easily impressed...Big batteries indeed, what about the paint???
    Lesley

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  5. Hi Bob
    Men are SO easily impressed...Big batteries indeed, what about the paint???
    Lesley

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