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  2. ONAN replacement or not?

Re: ONAN replacement or not?

Mike Ondra
 

And maybe without the genset the mast would be vertical!   ; )

Which brings up the question of the weight of a full bank of lithium batteries?

Mike

ALETES SM#240 Rock Hall, MD

 

From: main@AmelYachtOwners.groups.io <main@AmelYachtOwners.groups.io> On Behalf Of Germain Jean-Pierre
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2020 3:34 PM
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Subject: Re: [AmelYachtOwners] ONAN replacement or not?

 

FWIW, I would proceed exactly as suggested on Aquarius 

 

A top tier lithium setup should not cost you as much as a new genset 

 

Good luck

 

Jean-Pierre Germain, Eleuthera, SM007, NZ

 



On 1/12/2020, at 9:00 AM, Ken Powers SV Aquarius <ken@...> wrote:

You asked for opinions.....

With new solar, and lithium batteries the future of gensets has almost come to an end.  You can put 2KW of solar on deck with 900AH of LiFePO4 batteries (at 24V).  This would life better than getting a new GenSet.

Keep the genset though, you might use it about 50 hours per year, max, with the set up above.   And you might even get another 10 years of life out of that Onan.  Onan's are very good gensets!

Ken
Aquarius
SM2K#262

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