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I have my log in front of me....

at this moment as I am writing up a report for our web site.

In July we anchored at/in Mildred Island in the San Francisco area Delta. Day temps in the high 90s. Cool at night. We were flying one (1) 85 Watt solar panel ONLY.

Once anchored we did not run our engine and do not carry a generator. With our Engel running as a reefer (not freezing) full time. We also ran our VHF/FM 75% of the time, our AM/FM radio at least 12 hours per day, all but one cabin lights are LED, and we ran our small TV for about 1.5 hours per day. I might have also ran the chart plotter for an hour or less to plot our next course and fired up the radar a time or two for a couple of sweeps to make sure we were staying put in relation to the shore.

After 3 days & nights, my log shows that on July 18, at 0700 our Link-10 read we were down 28.8 Ah. NOT bad as we have a 300 Ah battery bank

For clarity, our Engel is the MT17 on a shelf.

Greg

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