Hydraulicjump
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- La Barka (2015)
My wife says my ignorance insatiable. She may have a point, but I will give it a shot.
A few weeks go I replaced the oil sensor/sending unit on our R-27 (see earlier post about phantom oil pressure changes on Halloween). Yesterday, I hauled the boat out of the vineyard to test the unit by running the engine in my front yard. First thing I noticed was that the house batteries were flat dead (5v on the solar panel monitor, zip on the analog meter on the panel). The reason was immediately apparent. Being a numbskull, I left the house and engine battery switches "on" when I buttoned up the boat. Since I had been futzing with the ground buss I know I had disconnected and reconnected the system. For some reason, on our boat the Garmin autopilot controller is hard wired through the house battery switch, bypassing the panel. Thus, whenever I turn the house power on, the controller comes on. I am pretty sure I left it on, searching for the autopilot, killing the battery by overwhelming the solar system (boat's in a shady spot). Engine battery was fine.
Here is the part I am trying to understand. I plugged the boat into the house (through a handy adapter) to recharge the batteries. Nothing happened on the ProMariner 1500 inverter/charger. I switched to shore power with the AC breaker on and got nothing. This all sent me on a wild goose chase to see if power was getting to the inverter. It was. The solar panel was slowly bringing the house batteries up during all of this. Slowly.
Finally, after about half an hour of this, I went and flipped off the shore power and AC switches, turned them back on, and Voila! Everything lit up and started charging. What am I missing here? Why was I unable to get this going only to have it turn on?
More phantoms in the boat?
Thanks
Jeff
A few weeks go I replaced the oil sensor/sending unit on our R-27 (see earlier post about phantom oil pressure changes on Halloween). Yesterday, I hauled the boat out of the vineyard to test the unit by running the engine in my front yard. First thing I noticed was that the house batteries were flat dead (5v on the solar panel monitor, zip on the analog meter on the panel). The reason was immediately apparent. Being a numbskull, I left the house and engine battery switches "on" when I buttoned up the boat. Since I had been futzing with the ground buss I know I had disconnected and reconnected the system. For some reason, on our boat the Garmin autopilot controller is hard wired through the house battery switch, bypassing the panel. Thus, whenever I turn the house power on, the controller comes on. I am pretty sure I left it on, searching for the autopilot, killing the battery by overwhelming the solar system (boat's in a shady spot). Engine battery was fine.
Here is the part I am trying to understand. I plugged the boat into the house (through a handy adapter) to recharge the batteries. Nothing happened on the ProMariner 1500 inverter/charger. I switched to shore power with the AC breaker on and got nothing. This all sent me on a wild goose chase to see if power was getting to the inverter. It was. The solar panel was slowly bringing the house batteries up during all of this. Slowly.
Finally, after about half an hour of this, I went and flipped off the shore power and AC switches, turned them back on, and Voila! Everything lit up and started charging. What am I missing here? Why was I unable to get this going only to have it turn on?
More phantoms in the boat?
Thanks
Jeff