Building our Electrical System | S06E20
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We bought Atticus II because we knew she’d be a great platform to explore the world by sailboat, but from the very beginning we knew we were going to have to upgrade several components of our electrical system to live self-sufficiently at anchor, off -grid, and sailing offshore. So over the course of the next few videos, we will be doing an exhaustive DEEP DIVE into our journey of building our dream electrical system from the ground up.
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You are doing 20 years of maintenance and updates all at one time. Great channel!
One thing I like on your channel: When I’m watching RAN or UMA, I’m like: ”Wow those guys are genious, I could never do that by myself”. But when I’m watching your channel, I’m like: ”Wow, they did that pretty good, maybe I should try too”. Thank you for being inspiration. 👍
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I only watch this station occasionally but didn't you guys just spend near a quarter million dollars on a new boat? now you're rebuilding the electrical system? Yikes!
Can't wait for the up coming episodes.
I watch both of them , they are the best 👍👍👍👍
Sounds like you’re headed to the future of electrical power for boating 👍 yesireebob
Great video... May want to recalculate adding a child or two.
Love the picture of getting into the refrigerator!
Thank you for this video. I didn't have a Nigel Calder to consult with, but thanks to TH-cam I was able to implement most of these improvements to my Pearson 303.😅😅
Jordan, as a pilot redundancy is your friend, I see many similar comparisons between flying and sailing. Having a generator may be extra weight and the need for more space but when you are at 30 west crossing the Atlantic and the main engine won’t start and you haven’t seen the sun in 5 days you may wish you had the back up generator or in addition some wind turbine to get you through. Safety first!
That was my take away as well. Why would you have redundancy on your boat? So you can self rescue if everything starts going south. One thrown rod when your 1000 miles from help means everything that runs on batteries will be dead before long.
It is easy to be confused when dealing with electric power. There is a lot to understand. We went a little more simplified on our solar/battery system for our RV. I installed two 100 ah battleborn lithium batteries and a 1000 watt inverter. I also ran a couple dedicated ac plug ins from the inverter. The other change I had to make was our RV converter was swapped out for one that is compatible with lithium. We don't try to run everything off this system. While boondocking we can watch a little tv and a few other things and the solar (200 watt ) keeps us going just fine. We also have a 2200 watt generator for backup on cloudy days. Coffee is made the old fashioned way on the stove. Fridge runs on propane as well as the hot water heater. Thanks for this video. You cover the subject well as usual. Could have used you in our mould shop at the glass factory back in the day!
Wow I can’t believe I sat through a vid on electric systems and came out the other end thoroughly entertained.and informed. Now that’s a skill Jordan👍
Great presentation and how you're breaking down each phase of the upgrade!
Jordan have you considered changing your 12vdc system over to 48 vdc with the loads you have a lot of savings could be in the wire size and weight. Rick Moore just changed his boat over to 48vdc for a lot of savings.
Sounds like a great challenge. Looking forward to more.
Great topic, you’ve done your homework and the information you’ve shared is very useful and much appreciated, thank you for sharing and may your needs be met when needed, take care safe travels and looking forward to your next episode…
The easiest way to reduce power consumption, is to conserve usage.
I can't wait to see this system get installed.
Bro! Jordan explained all this ! And i bet that most of us understood .. my professors know nothing about how to make a person understand something
Looking forward to this series. Atticus II is such a beautiful boat, she deserves the best systems... and so do you guys.
Great job providing this information.
Yup, can't wait to see next week video for sure. Good luck you two. You will be teaching the audience a huge learning curve that we all have. Thank you.
This is the only show I "like" before I watch! Never, have I regretted it! Att II is cool and I like the little guy but you two are the best. I'm off to find the "free lunch"!
great presentation as always, I cant wait to see the project in all its glory.
You guys are great. Thanks for working so hard to take us along on your journey!
I'm not a sailor, don't know cra@ about electricity, never even been on a cruising sailboat... yet you held my attention for 24 minutes. Good job.
Fantastic episode this week, and a great explanation of how much power you use and how you will deal with it. Basically you’re setting up a hybrid power system which uses the engine as a generator to top things up when you have less solar and more cloudy days. Brilliant idea.
Very nice. But we're really here for Oso! 😎
a wind turbine is recommended too, and a honda inverter 2000 will be great for backup/emergency
Jordan, you are doing it right. Doing your research and doing it right under worse case scenarios. I applaud you.
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Outstanding Jordan. I love this one and am learning a ton. Thanks.
Deep dive into electrical!! Awesome sounds great! Looking forward to it! Go A2 crew go!
I love those computer stands keeping your back straight can help when editing all day for sure! Keep up the great work guys!
Can we a get 30 minutes of just sailing? It makes me sleepy and it's comforting.
Hi Jordan, My name is Dino, I had the privilege of meeting your parents at a restaurant last night. I live in MD but I have been traveling to Florida for 27 years. I see this (Big Guy) and he looked so familiar and then I looked at his wife and it all clicked. About a week ago I watched the episode with your parents on it. I asked them if their son was a boater? Great people!
Hi Jordan, nice video. Did you look a re-gen propeller for charging your battery when you sail. Enjoy you electrical refit. Cheers
I'm really looking forward to the electronic upgrade series, I find electricity very scary, but will also have to learn to fix up my own boat. For the time being, I have been enjoying your journey in the broadest sense of the word for years. Keep it up and stay healthy
Most Excellent presentation. Howard Cosell was the only other man who impressed me with his ability to speak at length with out the usual "ah, umm, so, and uh, and so on. Well done!
@@pauleohl Something tells me YOU hated Monday Night Football in it's "Heyday" with Dandy Don!
This is going to be fun to watch. Really looking forward to it and seeing you at the show. Keep safe.
I Hope to see you at the show. I'll be there on Friday!
The knowledge that you have acquired (and shared!) is astounding. You are a saint and a scholar!
I am always impressed with the quality of information you receive from viewers who know the technical upgrade issues you will be dealing with. Particularly with a subject like installing a new highly integrated AC/DC system. Tip O The Hat to the viewers.
hey guys another great video my suggestion for alternator would be 2 160amp alternators to meet your charge requirements, this gives you inbuilt redundancy because if you have an alternator failure you only lose half your capacity, bearing in mind a 3oo plus amp alternator is not going to be quickly replaceable remotely.
Wow, exciting and electrifying times ahead! Much the same considerations for the RV world as well or off grid living.
Thank youu for this very important and valuable pcs of electrical information.
Looking forward to seeing your progress as you carry out the electrical upgrade.
This was a awesome video! Good info. Look fwd to seeing you guys at the Annapolis boat show.
That's a big damn alternator. I would still consider something like one of the "suitcase" portable generators for some backup capacity.
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Something to consider: sun shade in your aft area will significantly reduce the need for cooling. Just added solar with a couple of inches of gap on the underside will provide massive cooling from direct sun
Great decision on the Lithionics batteries! Absolutely the best in this category!
Working on the same sort of upgrade on our PSC 34. Very educational. Recently looked at Episode 03, you have come a long way since then. All the hard work is paying off.
Well done informative presentation on the pros of having a nice bank of lithium batteries (system) in a blue water sail boat. I like Jordans balance view of their adventure so far. Old saying: "You can't appreciate the peaks until you've been in the valleys".
It is so exciting all of the plans you have to upgrade not only the electrical system on Attics 2 but all of your other planned projects . I am excited for you both and look forward to each episode …..Best wishes ….Kevin ..New Zealand 🌷🌷🌷🌷
Very nice. Looking forward to seeing you all complete this endeavor 😎
Wow, exciting watching you guys upgrade.
So freakin’ educational. Thanks for the perfect detailed overview. Looking forward to next week!
I know these videos have a time lag, We cruise on our Oyster 485 and require about 50 percent more energy per day than your estimate, please consider a generator. If we "camp" our solar panels keep up, but if we live at anchor for days or weeks and make water the genset runs about 30-45 minutes per day. Our main engine is a Saber / Perkins with one Balmar 140 amp alternator and 70 amp for charging the cranking batteries.Our genset is an onan 9k, the main engine burns 1.3 g p h at 1800 rpm or 1 g p h at the 1200 rpms required to get amps out of the alternator. the genset burns 2 liter per hour and you don't put hours on the main engine.
If you consider a generator to be so important, give them the $25,000 to buy it. Their system sounds fine and way more affordable. My 1986 Yanmar runs perfectly with over 8000 hrs while powering a 120 amp Balmar when needed
@@tropicalsailor2908 if you look down in the comments SV Nepenthes' price was over 40,000 dollars
@@charonstyxferryman exactly and saver
This is what I have been waiting for!
Watched my favorite sailing couple again from long hiatus and found that your moving on from Atticus 1. Sad and happy at the same time.
Really good vidéo ! So much information that are really pertinent!
So I'm just wondering out loud here, so maybe nothing to it, but those two laptops are using power that you've converted to from DC-->AC and their power supply immediately converts the AC back to DC for the laptop. I wonder if a DC power supply for the laptop for use on the boat might be more efficient?
Typically laptops have a DC input higher than 12 volts, so you can't do a direct input. But, you could wire in a step up converter. You still have efficiency loss, but it's more like 5-10% instead of 15%.
I switched from running my rugged laptop with an inverter and standard power supply to a 12vdc power supply and I can run it twice as long on the same house battery.
@@TheOverproof151 It is my understanding that they are using laptops with high end graphics processors. Graphics processors are just power hogs to do what they do. If you want to see typical specs for the laptops just look up gaming laptops. The fact that laptops pull power from their batteries does not isolate you from needing power. If you are drawing a lot of power out of the battery then you have to recharge more frequently. If you are using a high power laptop for (say) five hours then you will probably have the charger plugged into power for most of that time. Now the power brick will draw minimum power while the battery is charged but as soon as the battery needs to draw charge then a lot of power will be drawn by the power brick.
I built a rig that would power and charge my MacBooks directly from a small foldable solar panel array. Had to custom make the cord though.
@@longestuseravailable what this man said. Great question though!
Susan & Tony here, great presentation!
I have a suggestion if you're interested. Water turbine. Charge the batteries while under sail or anchoring in a current.
Thank you for the education. Thank you for everything you do.
Fascinating!
Excellent presentation and explanation of where you are going with your electrical. I am looking forward to your new project. Thanks, J.R.
Jordan. Super video. I like your simple explanations to a complex system.
This channel is just so informative
This episode recharged my batts! Peace and ohm!
Another great video guys! Keep up the amazing work and I’m looking forward to the new sailing adventure with the new boat.
“Onboard life style” have an amazing electrical system. They also do an amazing job at explaining how they set it up.
Quite a dissertation on a sailboat electric system. Very impressed with your knowledge
Don't forget: When Starlink internet service becomes available for marine applications, you'll be dropping your cell booster and installing a (power sucking) satellite internet terminal!!! :)
Wow...so much to know but I'm sure once you're into it it won't feel so overwhelming! Good luck✌💜
Good Luck with your electrical journey ... it's a mine field !! Stay Safe & Fair Winds !!
Interesting choices. Why use an 12V battery bank? If you had a 24V or even 48V battery then you wouldn’t need such thick wires to distribute DC power.
I too wonder why 12V when starting from scratch?
Thank you
This episode came out at the perfect time! Pure Providence. I'm currently planning/rigging up an off-grid system of Solar/LP for the 5th wheel that we are moving onto the new to us farm and you've passed along some invaluable and very useful information to help in that process. You guys always bring a smile to my face and I'm already looking forward to next Saturday morning. Thanks again for sharing your lives with all of us strangers.
There's a solar advantage with a 5th wheel. You can move the solar panel point and tilt angles to follow the sun as the earth rotates durning the day and as the days get shorter and the sun gets lower in the south with the seasons changes.
@@jhill4071 Thanks for the good advice. I was thinking it would be better to keep the panels mobile rather than mounting to the roof, especially since we only get about 8 hours of good light during the middle of winter. Was also planning on finding a good used windmill to run the well pump rather than using electric. Pumping water from 200' below up a 2" pipe requires quite a bit more amps than a typical 12 volt water pump in an RV or in a boat.
Can't wait to see the final product
How have you factored in the increased loads for the “additional crew” when your family grows into this system?
I was wondering about that. I'm guessing it would be significant.
Oh Ya can't wait to see the whole story!
Awesome episode
Great info on your upcoming electrical upgrade. Looking forward to the project. Cheers 🍻
You guys are so good at this format, this is going to be great! 👍
Shower beers. Yes. That is all
Oh really enjoyed that! Jordan Was great at explaining the new system, As well as entertaining.
Just animated enough to visually hold the interest and not distract from the message it’s perfect
Very cool, can’t wait to see all the electrical
Good episode, looking forward to the next one.
Sounds like a plan! Go. Atticus!
Much of my wiring starts on a pad of graph paper. (Old skool) Then I watch Pacific Yacht Systems’ TH-cam channel (Jeff Cote) for where I’ve been stuck.
We remember you guys from Bocas Del Toro! ❤️🇵🇦
Happy weekend!
Very American...North American, of you...110v - 120v/60hz...hope you think about transformers because the rest of the world uses 220v and 250v...50hz...just something to ponder guys...you have a lot on your plate and seem to have a very good company helping you. True, much of the appliances you take will be 110/60... Plugging in at a marina on the PAC side will prove an issue sometimes. As always, Jordan..have a backup bud!
Great show...very well explained!
Looking forward to more, please keep innovating, great !
Exciting.
I never considered a boat with all the comforts of home. But, I beleive you may do just that. ALL SUCCESS TO YOU BOTH!
Re what you were saying about fire risk, apparently the dive boat Conception burned due to a short in the lithium battery charger. Scary!
Well done.
Really interesting explanation, looking forward to see progress
When you have kids, believe me your tv will be on 24/7, just saying. Great video my friend. 😎🐕👍
Wahaah....long speach bro!! OMG... Can't believe I lasted 22 mins .... Holy shit. Definitely need a beer now ✌️😎
Great you are doing a thorough job and minimising the risk of fire. I think RAN Sailing covered that well.
Look forward to the new electrical system 😀 🙌.