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Alternator charges with too high voltage
Sunday also meant boat work and it was time to move Anne-Mon from the winter location to our ship. During the summer we will have a spot in a marina further out in the archipelago, but that is pretty far away so it is perfect to have her next to the ship for a while. Since we have connected the service batteries we also wanted to test the alternator on the engine. We haven’t done this before and during our engine renovation we didn’t do any work with the alternator, we had just hoped that it would work. We magnetized the alternator by applying 12V to the D+ pin with…
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Continuing with electrical system overhaul and our sails
During the weekend we first did some work on our ship, Aline. We also took a look at the sails we have for our ketch rigged sailboat, more about them below.
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Electrical system overhaul (and cleaning)
The engine is finally finished (sort of) and it is time to go over the electrical systems in the sailboat. At first we will just focus on the basic functionalities, which is power to the engine and the instruments to the engine. Depending on the weather we might continue with other functions or continue with the plastic repairs. For us it is important to have good knowledge about our system so that we know what could be wrong if something should happen. First up was to clean the battery box so that we could get our new batteries in place. We bought our batteries a while ago second hand just…
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Fuel tank renovation
When we were working with cleaning the bilge one day we accidentally hit one of the connections to the fuel tanks and broke it. It started pouring diesel into the bilge and we did a temporary fix. But this was something that we definitely needed to do a proper fix for. Since we had broken one of the connections in the fuel tanks we had decided to remove all the other connections so that we could change them. When we were removing the remaining connections we managed to break 3/5 of them. It was a really good decision to change them! And it was also a good thing it broke now…
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Draining and cleaning the bilge
One thing we really wanted to do when the engine was lifted out from the boat was to do a proper draining and cleaning of the bilge. We also had to move Anne-Mon
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