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For clarity, solar panels work fine without any controller at all
In Response To: Again I cite that you can sail without electricity at all... ()
Our 480W of solar after the lightning strike were how we kept our remaining starting batteries pressed into house service charged. You simply connect the panels directly to the batteries and disconnect them when the voltage climbs above 14.8V (for our batts). Solar panels themselves are pretty immune to lightning problems, if only for the fact they mostly sit inside the cone of protection of a strike.
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- Compass on a boat?
- Here we go again!
- How do you take relative bearings?
- Yes, that is what I meant
- Use your radar of course
- Or, failing that, your pelorus
- Only works when 1) radar is on; 2) object has a radar return.
- Only takes a second to turn the radar on...
- Or, failing that, your pelorus
- Yes, that is what I meant
- I (and crew) had to handsteer acoss the Gulf
- How do you take relative bearings?
- Really?
- I remember Evans Starzinger asking himself that same question.
- Explain to me other than "it's traditional" why I should replace a broken tool that hasn't been used in 10 years
- Also note that I'm a very good DR guy, can read the sun very accurately as well as follow the stars
- Then, don't get a compass.
- Last summer a friend of mine and I were delivering his
- In daylight, with good visibility, I can sail a straight course without a compass
- In daylight, with good visibility, I can sail a straight course without a compass
- Compasses can turn to "toast" too...
- Explain to me other than "it's traditional" why I should replace a broken tool that hasn't been used in 10 years
- Again I cite that you can sail without electricity at all...
- For clarity, solar panels work fine without any controller at all
- I only use a compass when I sleep
- Our real life usage....
- Yeh of continuing faith.
- Here we go again!