SkipH
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- May 22, 2007
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- Boat Info
- Sundancer 400 DA 1999
- Engines
- Twin 7.4 MPI Mercruisers Vdrives
We spent five days on the hook this past Labor Day, it was great. However two of those days at the end of the day the house batteries were down to 8V. We have the original configuration of two batteries per engine and one for the gen. The port side engine battery is also the house battery source.
What I'm wondering is, not running the gen set during the day means that the fridge, stereo, water pumps, head pumps and so on all run off the house batteries without being maintained at full voltage, so the battery bank is depleted. However running the gen set isn't desirable either if for no other reason than noise.
Has anyone installed dedicated house batteries with larger capacity? If so I'd like to hear about it.
1999 Sundancer DA 400
Twin 7.4 MPI
What I'm wondering is, not running the gen set during the day means that the fridge, stereo, water pumps, head pumps and so on all run off the house batteries without being maintained at full voltage, so the battery bank is depleted. However running the gen set isn't desirable either if for no other reason than noise.
Has anyone installed dedicated house batteries with larger capacity? If so I'd like to hear about it.
1999 Sundancer DA 400
Twin 7.4 MPI