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• Anyone upgrade their Yanmar for Serpentine Pulleys ...
  • For $500 bucks for a pulley it better make my boat do "wheelies"
  • I like it.
    • Exactly ... for $500 and 180A ALT, you'd get some serious power ...
      • it's a lot cheaper than solar, up front
      • Amps
        • depends on the type of batteries and the size of the bank
          • Quite and Generator?
            • I don't think it's boring.
            • Yes -- it's all relative
              • Larry, is that a shot of the Norwalk Islands....
                • Greenwich Islands
              • Quieter then the main engine?
                • Not an issue. It's about as loud as a wind-gen
                  • 3db is twice as loud
          • Solar and wind is difficult with hig amperage usage.