Chris, There is a spring inside the brake caliper piston cylinder that is supposed to push the piston and keep the pads pressed against the brake disc when the engine is not running. The caliper is se

Hi Ulrich, What I mean is all the cables that connect each of the batteries to the common +ve and -ve points should be the same length. And, separately, all the connections to the balancers should be

Hello all, I concur with some on this issue. It reminds me of all those (mostly US) long keel yachts I used to see with jerricans of fuel and water, as well as surfboards and other junk, tied to the s

Thanks Paul, that's right, AND all the +ve and -ve battery cables should be the same length, otherwise there will be voltage differences which will work against the balancing effect. Cheers Alan Elyse

Hi Ulrich, We have 6V AGM batteries in a series parallel arrangement with balancers on each string of 4. We have no issue with vapor as the batteries are AGMs, The balancers are in the battery compart

When we bought Elyse in 2013, I didn't think I'd ever use it, but I do ! With just two on the boat it doesn't seem justified, but with 4 I have used it a lot. With just two on the boat, we wash dishes

Hi Jeff Sorry SOC-State Of Charge Yes my field disconnect switch does just that, however your smart reg will go to float eventually this will stop the overcharging that can happen with the standard au

Hello Jeff, Re Smart External Regulators There are a lot of them on the market and they mostly work the same way, except the Sterling units which don't require alternator modification (I don;t underst

Hello fellow Amelians, Does anyone have a dimensioned drawing of the cross section of the SM mizzen mast ? I want to 3D print some spacers in order to mount a small box with an air horn and compressor

Thanks Bill, Very interesting...You said "One of the key parameters for us is to watch the difference between the “high” and “low” halves of the battery bank. If they drift apart from being identical

Thanks Dean, I believe that battery balancers are essential. We have 6v 210Ah batteries in three parallel strings of 4 in series. Each string has its own balancer for 4 batteries which I bought on Ali

Hi All, I'm with Nick. We have 12 x AGMs that we installed 4 years ago with battery balancers to ensure the voltage across the series batteries stays equal and we have had ZERO problems so far. Elyse

Thanks Bill, There must be another motor in this series. When I replaced a motor a little more than a year ago, the motor that came was the 4 brush type but it was a smaller diameter than the the old

The shaft being 50mm in diameter means the circumference of the SHAFT is 157.08mm. The packing has to occupy the space between the shaft and the housing. Given that the packing is 8mm, the actual leng

You can buy stuffing box packing from any decent chandler, it's not Amel specific. We did ours 7 years ago and it hasn't leaked since. Agree with Danny, used the shaft as a template, cut diagonally an

With a winch handle locked into the manual furling socket and a line around it to the base of the mast to prevent it from turning. Alan Elyse SM437

Yes you can see the unused holes, but it's really of no consequence

Hi Gary, No kit number, we had to measure. And they are different, some wheels like ours with alloy spokes, some have round stainless spokes, no sure if the diameters are the same. Cheers Alan Elyse S

Hi Tom and Kirstin, We did our wheel with a kit from Boat Leather in 2017. How you are holding it in the pic is exactly how we did it. I sewed the cover up to where it meets the spoke cover, pulled th

We had the Interphase unit on Elyse when we bought her in 2013. About a year later the transducer failed. I obtained a replacement from Garmin in the US who had just bought Interphase. That transducer