Very interesting Bill. The amount of tension required to avoid the line slipping has always been a concern. Who knows when we’ll be back on board. But I will take a look and see if its something we wo

Hi Reudi; To clarify, in order for the sensor to be isolated, you need two wires. You cannot have an isolated single wire sensor, since it will utilize the engine block as the negative leg of the conn

Hi Ruedi; In order for the sensor to be isolated ground, it needs to have 2 wires, since it cannot use the engine block as ground. If you use the serial number of the engine to order the part, a singl

Hello Gary; We are looking into supplying the entire 220V panel from the battery bank by inverters, so we can run all boat systems from the battery bank. With new inverter/chargers there is the abilit

Thank you Randall for the detailed explanation. Happy Sailing; Mohammad and Aty B&B Kokomo AMEL 54 #099

Hi Randall; Although our “temporary” fix of spraying CorrosionX in the furler has lasted over 4 years and the furler is still very smooth, it has been on our list to service the unit, once we figure o

Hi Thomas; We had the same stiffening within a year of purchasing Kokomo. It got progressively worse to a point that we felt we may be damaging the gears by placing the amount of force required to fur

Thanks for the information Paul. Have you checked and confirmed the S/N to be sure this is the correct part for the 54s? Happy Sailing; Mohammad and Aty B&B Kokomo AMEL 54 #099

Thanks to Bill and Tilo for taking the time to make these happen. Happy Sailing; Mohammad and Aty B&B Kokomo AMEL 54 #099

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Hi again Steve; I forgot to mention that we will be installing the Yacht Sentinel boat monitoring system that has many functions that it monitors such as Geofencing (Anchor drag), low battery, high wa

Hello Steve; You make valid points. However, we feel that at some point, we must have standard operating procedures, that address issues like the one you mention. There are many systems on board that

Hi Bernd; We always use ours on an individual filter setting. We change out the used filter, when we service the engine and generator annually. We currently put about 200 hours on the engine annually,

Teun; Thanks for the clarification. Happy Sailing; Mohammad and Aty B&B Kokomo AMEL 54 #099

Hi Barry; Keep us informed. Lithium is definitely the way to go and offers tremendous upside to lead acid.. Addressing safety concerns, is our biggest design criteria and challenge. I have many years

Hi Teun; Can you please forward your Victron Contact if you think they would be helpful in design and selection. Happy Sailing; Mohammad and Aty B&B Kokomo AMEL 54 #099

Hi Scott; Thanks for the very timely and helpful update on your experience with the conversion. We are currently in the beginning stages of the design and all of this information is extremely helpful.

We’ve had good experience with MasterVolt. The main reason we were considering Victron, was the capacity. I believe MasterVolt goes to 3500W per unit. I just checked and I see that they do have the ab

Thanks for the info Arno. Happy Sailing; Mohammad and Aty B&B Kokomo AMEL 54 #099

Hi Arno; Thanks for the information. I am still unclear as to exactly how the cables are run and, as you suggested, we will be checking to be sure they are terminated correctly. Our goal is to elimina

Hi Teun; Our chargers are mounted on the bulkhead to port side of the generator, so it is far away from the bilge. I really like the AMEL philosophy of all mechanical and electrical items in the engin