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Lithium Batteries – A pragmatic approach
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Lithium batteries for boats is a hot topic today and like most of us, we started investigating their use on Mystic Rose.
Our first inclination was simply to replace our AGM’s with drop-in LFP replacements but I soon discovered that was not as easy as it sounds.
That’s when I realized I had to learn about BMS’s, surge loads, alternator charging, failsafe systems and a whole lot more.
Rod Collins at MarineHowTo.com, John Harries at Attainable Adventure Cruising on MorgansCloud.com and Bruce Schwabb at OceanPlanetEnergy.com all became my go to websites.
Our eventual pragmatic solution was to ditch our 20+ year old unreliable diesel generator which was at the end of its fateful life anyway, and use the space to install a large LiFePo4 battery bank that would supply all our 110v AC needs along with charging our existing AGM’s.
Attend this webinar to learn how we arrived at this solution and the benefits of this approach.
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Bernie and Lynn have been racing and cruising sailors for over 40 years.
They began racing together in Ontario on a Laser II trapeze dinghy and then a Laser 28 sailboat that they both raced and cruised in Ottawa and trailered to many ports including Montreal, Kingston, Quebec City, Chicago and Annapolis.
After moving to Boston in 2000 they owned Amigo VI a J/42 and loved East coast (including a couple of Canadian provinces) cruising and Bernie raced offshore to Halifax and Bermuda several times.
In 2012 they upgraded to their dream boat Mystic Rose a J/46 performance cruiser.
Bernie and Lynn have always done most of the maintenance on their boats themselves and that is still true today.
In the off season, Bernie and Lynn race a Harbor 20 in Port Charlotte Harbor, FL.
Videoconference information will be provided in an email once payment is received.
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