Hello, My pump is based on a brushless motor, not a stepper motor. You asked me about building an "adapter" from old fridge system to VESC conrolled brushless pump. My adapter replaces the original co

Hello, Did you check your gear oil? Any water in it? Did you service the gear oil cooler? Oliver from Vela Nautica Amel54 #39 Martinique

Hello, I will answer tomorrow more in detail bcs its late now. So far just a word in advance to prevent from guessing too much. 1. A brushless motor as we use it is in no way a motor where you just ho

Hello, I do not see the point to buy a quattro and bypass the AMEL shore power switch. If we would not have this switch it makes sense, but with an automatic switch installed? On my boat the multi is

Hi Bill, I went out for sailing for the last couple of month and was not able to answer the questions that my thread implied. As there is so much response to this topic and I am a bit more station, I

Hi Bill, I went out for sailing for the last couple of month and was not able to answer the questions that my thread implied. As there is so much response to this topic and I am a bit more station, I

Hello, My VESC gets its 24V power from 24V Emgine room point. It gets serial bus commands from an ARM32 MCU. My system takes temperatures from inside freezer, fridge, compressor fridge, compressor fre

Hi Paul, We will sail up and down the islands and stay along the Westindies with our base on Martinique for this season. Oliver from Vela Nautica Amel54 #39 Martinique

Hello Carina, Since I changed my fridge cooling to brushless and VESC CONTROLLER we had no pump breakdowns anymore. Now we use it in tropical conditions in the Caribbean and its still working fine. Yo

Hello, I replaced the old B&G Hydra 2000 on Vela Nautica. I got the main processor, expansion processor, 2 pcs FFD Fully Function Display. Masthead wind vane with about 20m wire. System was used until

Helli Dan, Yes i got the 175A Alternator with double pully belt setup. At this time I limited the current to max 90 A. I could do more but I dont need to. I installed a 14.4 kWh Lithium batterie and m

Hello, In this teardown the usual problem with "drop in" batteries is exposed. Every drop in has its own BMS and with that a questionable max current capacity and a chance of long term disbalance if y

Hi Bill, I will check my foto lib. Maybe I got some fotos when I revised my motor. The main problem was that the shaft was baked into the furler and I needed to take the boom off and press the shaft o

Hello Dan, I used the VSR sailors project regulator from Al Thomason. I am very satisfied with it. Since then I dont have wear off pullys and the regulator offers all parameters to customize beside al

Hello James, On our YouTube channel we posted a Video how we installed our Victron Charger Inverter 5000W Go to: S V Vela Nautica On YouTube there is also more information how we switched to lithium b

Hello, Is there also a lipseal and maybe ballbearing list for the AMEL 54? Regards Oliver Vela Nautica A54#39 Gibraltar

I used the NMEA 0183 out at the Raymarine Autopilot to read Mag HDG heading by Actisense NGW-1 (actually I build my own but does the same, only better software). The actisense bridge sends the mag HDG

Hi Wolfgang, I think I got also only the fluxgate from Raymarine. I will look for it in the forward cabin. I could not find any other compass or wires for it when I remouved the hydra system 2 weeks a

Hello Wolfgang, Where is the fluxgate hidden in A54? Is there also a B&G halcyon? Oliver A54#39 Vela Nautica Gibraltar

Hello Marc, I fully agree with you. I would give the same advice. Better buy a SM or A54 that comes with all the planed gear in place. We did the same, did not change anything, until we owned Vela Nau