Michael, I am not sure if they are worse. Given that Jamie was getting below 24 volts overnight after only a year, that sounds pretty bad though. Even our old gel batteries weren't that bad. My concer

Arno, I think it would be best if Jamie could chime in. He replaced his Fireflies precisely because he experienced severe voltage drop under load, one of the "hidden" downsides of carbon foam. As alwa

To continue the thread drift 😇, perhaps Jamie on phantom can chime in about his experience with carbon foam. He had fireflies before I think and experienced severe voltage drops under load to the poin

Bill, I guess I should have been more clear with my original question. I already have micron antifoul on hand but it seems the existing paint is peeling back to what appears to be a hard antifoul. As

Thanks Bill. We are scraping as much as we can and then going to feather sand and paint over it. The yard here can't do soda blasting so I don't want to risk a hand sanding. Tengah is 13 years old so

Hi all, We're hauled out right now and the antifouling seems to be flaking off the boat down to a very hard, shiny antifoul. The odd thing was that the antifoul looked great upon haulout and slowly st

Thank you Olivier! Exactly what I was looking for.

Hi all, I have Ultraflex M61 ft 25 82 steering cables on my A54 and they're in need of adjustment. I believe these are the same cables in the SM. There's a bit too much play and well, Olivier's purcha

I asked my technical / warranty contact at Xylem but he couldn't answer because he was working at home. I'll try again as that was 6 months ago. The software associated with my brush less pump says it

Grant, that's a LOT of capacity! Since you're talking about prop shaft alternators, do you have an older Amel that runs on 12v or are you talking 900amps at 24v? We have 450ah/24v and go through rough

Second update: I measured the pump flow rate on the original flojet with a hose and bucket and it was 6.5 liters per minute. I measured the flow rate on the brushless set at 25% duty cycle and it was

Dean, At least with my batteries, they are passively balanced. Most are. That means they don't balance between cells (even if I had a 12v system because recall that a 12v battery is 4 lifepo4 cells in

The hvd often occurs because one cell is over voltage. When that happens to me, if you look at the battery or bank level voltage, all looks fine. But that one cell is spiking. And if you don't cut off

Alpha 2 is fine as that's what I have and it has a lithium profile.

Ah yes and we listed to port prior to lithium. Even more so now. Full diesel tank helps though.

Dean, If you have the master volt 110/24 alternator you'll need the alpha pro 2 or later regulator. You'll also need the masterbus-usb interface to pick the lithium profile. No way to do it otherwise.

Update: I now have the brush less fridge pump motor up and running. It's self priming by virtue of using the flojet pump head. It has a brushless motor which theoretically will last much much longer t

Jamie, Sorry for the slow reply. I haven't installed it yet but I have an additional one of these aboard: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000JOK11K/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apap_BwgJiFawCYt3r Plan would be to zip ti

Hi all, We just completed a 2900nm passage from Hawaii to French Polynesia with pretty rough upwind/up current conditions for the first 10 days or so. Just a bit longer than the Atlantic crossing but

We have 450ah victron smart lithium and during fault testing have run the bow thruster on our a54 with engine off. Voltage stays well above 24v so amperage is not spiking as it would with lead acid. T