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@bill Oh cool. You gotta share those pictures. The full moon has been amazing but our camera needs a zoom lens 😔 but phones these days take pretty good photos.
Greetings. Love the S/V. Glad you are willing to show us this boat. That seems a lot of space to dedicate to three pieces of equipment and four fuses. Kind regards, Dave
Thanks. It was space allocated for it. You don't want everything crammed on top of each other when it comes to your electrical in case something goes wrong it's easy to locate and pin point.
Really appreciate you showing the possibility of polishing the acrylic panel. I did this on my BMW head lights and worked wonderfully. But understand when the panel is too far gone. But great that you showed! Also you must be an outstanding electrician.
For once I hear a decent music in the background and at a decent level so many TH-camrs have music way to loud . Thanks for a beautiful presentation on using altonator to lithium boost converters. I subscribed so hopefully I can see other great videos. Thanks again.🤗
G'day Ricky & Simone, wow, you got one heck of a serious terminal crimper !!!! Regards, Silvano Melbourne Hotel Quarantine Detention. Australia. 3 sleeps to go.
Hey so why did you isolate the wiring for this instead of just putting the positives of the incoming power together and the positives of the outcoming power together?
Hi guys, just a quick note to let you know that Patrick Childress lost his fight for life yesterday due to complications associated with covid19. To the few sailing channels that sparred the few seconds in their vlogs on this platform to help spread the word of the support both Patrick and Rebecca needed while Patrick was fighting, a big thank you for showing your support to these fellow sailors. Cheers
Good thing you do the lithium installtion for other vessels. Wish our yacht was here. Then we could do the same. I received report that I might have lost my 4x AGM batteries drawn to 0Volt due to failed MPPT controller. I am awaiting report to see if the can charge them back up, but I have little hope. More importantly, I am considering moving up to 3,5kw (45kg) single unit Supercapacitor battery. It is more lightweight, compact, incl MPPT controller and build-in converter 220v/110v. It charges full in a fraction of the time, has 1,000,000 cycles and can be drawn 99% (in which case the back-up battery kicks in and disconnects the battery). It comes with a 10yr warrantee. I did not buy one yet. I was quoted $4200/R69,000 (alas 8 weeks delivery) - so if my batteries did pack up, I am seriously considering jumping the LiFePO4 option. What do you think?
Hey nice work guys, I’ve got a dean 440 in the philippines at the moment,. Also converting all power systems lithium and victron ecosystem, so nice to see similarities in out boats. Keep up the good work.
Thanks Again Guys, a wonderfully informative vidclip, as usual .... Ricky .... While you were at the " Temptation Station" .... VETUS .... :-) :-) :-) Did you ask about the Oil Filter modification so-that your Filter Changes can be easier ????? OK .... Mooi Bly, Very Best to you Both from NZ
As always, a very professional video! Thumbs up:) Are you guys going to make a video, where you cover all the electronis and wiring onboard? I would love to see a video like that!
Thanks Gustav. We did a video when we installed all the stuff a while ago.. 😂 As well as a electronic unboxing video if you want to see what electronics we got?
Hi Guys, just curious: Why the buck-boosts instead of the Victron Orion 12/12-30, which has less capacity, agreed, but costs only a fraction of the buck-boost?
I’m assuming you also ran them up to full charge, and watched the amperage slowly go down, and then shut off...for times you motor for a long time. That’s always the scary part, knowing you don’t want to overcharge....Food video guys!
You cant overcharge with the buck boosts if the parameters are set correctly so you gotta kinda know what your doing. Lithium are awesome but they also take alot of research and aren't as plug and play like AGMs. You guys know. Sending lots of hugs your way 🤗
Hi Guys. Love your videos - well done and keep it up. Ricky, when you ran the motors they did not sound happy to me. Perhaps some sound quality issues, but they sound very much like they are detonating and quite badly at that (pinging), perhaps an air fuel ratio issue or more likely timing a bit too fast - all of which is software controlled I agree. It could also be that they over fuel slightly when cold - not sure, but worth checking as detonation in diesels us a really bad idea. Cheers Ian M (South Africa)
Haha Ian , i like your theory about the engines it made me smile . We have a noise cancelling mic and the engine compartments were both open at the time . Sound not accurate. But thanks for your concerned 😉
while you were getting ready to crimp those heavy cables with the + and - in the same hand the electrical engineer in me was screaming, "You're going to SHORT THEM!!!" sigh of relief...
@@livingwiththemaias Oh, logically I knew that you were doing something you knew better than me. But reactions from 30 years of dodging electrical death is hard to shake!
Isn't there a Buck Boost available that can connect to 2 engines same time instead of having 2 of them, and if you get the 100 amp Buck booster, will that go faster or how does that work?
Nice work on the charging system Ricky and as usual great camera work by Simone. What did I do during the lockdown? My beautiful wife and I sold our home and moved to a new town by the coast of Oregon. Now to get her to let me buy a boat to sail. Take care and stay well.
Hi guys. So those buck boosts are like an external regulator, but you don’t need to modify the alternators by adding a field wire and invalidating your Vetus warranty? I use an external regulator and I had to modify my alternator by adding a field wire, so the unit can override the alternators own regulator and take control and charge my AGM’s with the correct 3 phase stages and voltages and also faster with temperature compensation on both alternator and batteries. Love your videos and been following from then very start of your journey......your progress and achievement is off the scale! Just incredible. 😁👍🏻
They are pretty much like the Victron Orion Smart DC-DC converter/charger or the Sterling BB1260 without the crappy flashing lights interface. Of course they cost a lot more.
We did mention them in previous episodes I just don't know which one 😂 they are just normal roller blinds. We got them at a place called curtains and linen in PE.
Hi Guys. We have our Cat in PR. Now stuck in CT too and Lockdown level 3 we still cannot fly out. So me wife said jokingly if we go back to level 5, we could escape the madhouse and join the diaspora. When are you planning to leave CT for the Bahamas? I am also concerned, that if you leave soon, you will be caught between the devil and the deep blue sea....literally, because over 6 weeks from now is middle of hurricane season in Bahamas. Please do fill us in.
Heya Guys , no plans just yet will have to wait and see what happens with all the levels . We working at the moment doing lithium installs on a few yachts , once that is done we can start planning again. Not too worried about hurricane season, if we leave early we might stop off in Brazil for sometime until the season is over .
@@livingwiththemaias Hi Guys, before you sail to the #2-infestested Covid-country of the world right now, rather spend the winter in CT and try to earn some more money. The Bahamas will still be there at the end of the year or early next year... Or come up to RB and let's sail to Madagaskar, once the borders are open again :-)
Ricky & Simone! We so envy you being able to live on your boat after this long refit. We decided to go back to Sweden, and are now up at 29 months on our trimaran refit. Might return to Mexico by the end of this year but corona craziness need to have settled. It's always worrying leaving the boat for a longer period. We are almost done...but you two knows it just as well, there is always more than u think. haha. I dont rememeber if I have asked you before or if you have been talking about it, but how long time was the refit schedule to take at first? Don't laugh now...but we scheduled 3 months....hahaha. Everytime we watch your episodes...it's almost like watching ourselves, haha. ..but then again, we havnt launched :( All the best to you guys!
Hooray finally caught up to you guys and follow you in real time, hoping to see you on the open water soon. Lady Africa looking sexy you've done an ACCEPTIONAL job.
Unless an alternator is made for commercial use (say like a real truck or machinery) don't believe the ratings on the label. Yeah, they can do about 90% of what they're rated but if you try to do that for any length of time, they'll fry. Industrial alternators have big cases, strong bearings, big fans, and good electronics. Probably not good to ask them to do too much while at idle (low rpm) either. what is the running temp inside the engine compartment, electronics in there don't like it too hot. A car or truck engine get lots of fresh air while driving.
Still much safer with systems being separate period . If it fails it destroys yours expensive batteries .... do your homework most people keep them separate .
Sailing Lady Africa ... why would you sail with two water pumps redundancy , if a failure occurs in your system and you lose power how do you start the motor in the advent of an emergency ... kill the one system ... what’s your plan ?
What have you guys been up to during this lockdown? Leave a comment below letting us know. If you havent already don't forget to subscribe below & give us a big 👍 up. If you'd like to support us & the uploading of our videos you can join our Lady Africa family: www.patreon.com/svladyafrica
Not much. Sitting at home mostly working on projects on the laser engraver. Taking pictures of the Milky way. Stuff like that.
@bill Oh cool. You gotta share those pictures. The full moon has been amazing but our camera needs a zoom lens 😔 but phones these days take pretty good photos.
@Richard Keep safe guys! ♥
Not much. Sitting at home waiting to get out of town and go camping.
Reguarding lockdown I've been binge watching your series and I'm an essential employee and still working making toilet paper for America!
essential even during normal times. One of the really great unappreciated inventions, well you do appreciate when you don't have!
Battery tech is getting better , I am waiting for solid state.
Greetings. Love the S/V. Glad you are willing to show us this boat. That seems a lot of space to dedicate to three pieces of equipment and four fuses. Kind regards, Dave
Thanks. It was space allocated for it. You don't want everything crammed on top of each other when it comes to your electrical in case something goes wrong it's easy to locate and pin point.
Really appreciate you showing the possibility of polishing the acrylic panel. I did this on my BMW head lights and worked wonderfully. But understand when the panel is too far gone. But great that you showed! Also you must be an outstanding electrician.
We also did it on our head lights and other people we know used it on their acrylic boat windows but yeah unfortunately our hatch was long gone ☺
For once I hear a decent music in the background and at a decent level so many TH-camrs have music way to loud . Thanks for a beautiful presentation on using altonator to lithium boost converters. I subscribed so hopefully I can see other great videos. Thanks again.🤗
Cool...good to see you finally received them and they were an easy install! -Rebecca on SV Brick House
Love to you and Patrick, thinking of you both.
Great work ethic, Ricky, nice and tidy wiring, installation. It makes for any other installations, repairs etc. 👍🏴
Thanks so much Stuart!! Hope you're keeping well & safe 🤗
Another nice and insightful video.
Nice view above with the new hatch too. Well done!
Thanks.
woot woot! Sailing in the future!
Hopefully! 😊
G'day Ricky & Simone, wow, you got one heck of a serious terminal crimper !!!! Regards, Silvano
Melbourne Hotel Quarantine Detention. Australia. 3 sleeps to go.
Haha yeah we have used it plenty during this boat project.
Hey so why did you isolate the wiring for this instead of just putting the positives of the incoming power together and the positives of the outcoming power together?
Hi guys, just a quick note to let you know that Patrick Childress lost his fight for life yesterday due to complications associated with covid19. To the few sailing channels that sparred the few seconds in their vlogs on this platform to help spread the word of the support both Patrick and Rebecca needed while Patrick was fighting, a big thank you for showing your support to these fellow sailors.
Cheers
Watching your channel and missing the ocean and beach. The pools are all closed here in Overland Park Kansas and it is 95F today. Sigh.
We miss the ocean too. The marina is cool but nothing like the big blue ☺
Good thing you do the lithium installtion for other vessels. Wish our yacht was here. Then we could do the same. I received report that I might have lost my 4x AGM batteries drawn to 0Volt due to failed MPPT controller. I am awaiting report to see if the can charge them back up, but I have little hope.
More importantly, I am considering moving up to 3,5kw (45kg) single unit Supercapacitor battery. It is more lightweight, compact, incl MPPT controller and build-in converter 220v/110v. It charges full in a fraction of the time, has 1,000,000 cycles and can be drawn 99% (in which case the back-up battery kicks in and disconnects the battery). It comes with a 10yr warrantee. I did not buy one yet. I was quoted $4200/R69,000 (alas 8 weeks delivery) - so if my batteries did pack up, I am seriously considering jumping the LiFePO4 option. What do you think?
You could put a disconnect between the alternator and the buck boost. That way you can isolate side to side.
Both sides are isolated from one another , we have two buck boosts, feeding the single house bank.
can you post a wiring diagram
Great one thanks - love all victron products
Thanks Louis 🤗
Hey nice work guys, I’ve got a dean 440 in the philippines at the moment,. Also converting all power systems lithium and victron ecosystem, so nice to see similarities in out boats. Keep up the good work.
Thanks 😊
Thanks Again Guys, a wonderfully informative vidclip, as usual .... Ricky .... While you were at the " Temptation Station" .... VETUS .... :-) :-) :-) Did you ask about the Oil Filter modification so-that your Filter Changes can be easier ????? OK .... Mooi Bly, Very Best to you Both from NZ
We didn't.. Ricky didn't take his list with him 😂 but it won't be our last time there. Boat work never ends 😂 😂
As always, a very professional video! Thumbs up:) Are you guys going to make a video, where you cover all the electronis and wiring onboard? I would love to see a video like that!
Thanks Gustav. We did a video when we installed all the stuff a while ago.. 😂 As well as a electronic unboxing video if you want to see what electronics we got?
Hi Guys, just curious: Why the buck-boosts instead of the Victron Orion 12/12-30, which has less capacity, agreed, but costs only a fraction of the buck-boost?
Super nice
Thanks you 😁
I’m assuming you also ran them up to full charge, and watched the amperage slowly go down, and then shut off...for times you motor for a long time. That’s always the scary part, knowing you don’t want to overcharge....Food video guys!
You cant overcharge with the buck boosts if the parameters are set correctly so you gotta kinda know what your doing. Lithium are awesome but they also take alot of research and aren't as plug and play like AGMs. You guys know. Sending lots of hugs your way 🤗
Hi Guys. Love your videos - well done and keep it up.
Ricky, when you ran the motors they did not sound happy to me. Perhaps some sound quality issues, but they sound very much like they are detonating and quite badly at that (pinging), perhaps an air fuel ratio issue or more likely timing a bit too fast - all of which is software controlled I agree.
It could also be that they over fuel slightly when cold - not sure, but worth checking as detonation in diesels us a really bad idea.
Cheers
Ian M (South Africa)
Haha Ian , i like your theory about the engines it made me smile . We have a noise cancelling mic and the engine compartments were both open at the time . Sound not accurate.
But thanks for your concerned 😉
Your "things to do" list is getting there, good stuff. I'm trying to bake, COVID 101, first batch banana bread.......need's some work. Cheers.
Ooo yum! Post some over ☺
That must have been the longest 5 minutes, you guys have had in a long time!
😂 Yeah it was!
You are the first I have seen, thank you for sharing.
You're welcome ☺
while you were getting ready to crimp those heavy cables with the + and - in the same hand the electrical engineer in me was screaming, "You're going to SHORT THEM!!!" sigh of relief...
The mechanical engineer in me knew they weren't connected 😉 haha
@@livingwiththemaias Oh, logically I knew that you were doing something you knew better than me. But reactions from 30 years of dodging electrical death is hard to shake!
Isn't there a Buck Boost available that can connect to 2 engines same time instead of having 2 of them, and if you get the 100 amp Buck booster, will that go faster or how does that work?
Nice work on the charging system Ricky and as usual great camera work by Simone. What did I do during the lockdown? My beautiful wife and I sold our home and moved to a new town by the coast of Oregon. Now to get her to let me buy a boat to sail. Take care and stay well.
Thanks so much Matt! 😊
Parabéns excente engenheiro e arquiteto você é maraviloso gosto muito está linda modelo e bailarina e atriz muito bonit
Hello! great video! What was the white staff you used to bed the new hatch? Best regards!
It's was 3M Polyeruthane Sealant. 😊
Hi guys. So those buck boosts are like an external regulator, but you don’t need to modify the alternators by adding a field wire and invalidating your Vetus warranty?
I use an external regulator and I had to modify my alternator by adding a field wire, so the unit can override the alternators own regulator and take control and charge my AGM’s with the correct 3 phase stages and voltages and also faster with temperature compensation on both alternator and batteries. Love your videos and been following from then very start of your journey......your progress and achievement is off the scale! Just incredible. 😁👍🏻
They are pretty much like the Victron Orion Smart DC-DC converter/charger or the Sterling BB1260 without the crappy flashing lights interface. Of course they cost a lot more.
Thanks so much & it's exactly what Carl said. ☺
Do you have a link to the roller shutters that you've used on your aft cabins? I don't think they've been shown or talked about during the build.
We did mention them in previous episodes I just don't know which one 😂 they are just normal roller blinds. We got them at a place called curtains and linen in PE.
don't forget to sail to AZORES , PORTUGAL!!! you will love it!!!
Sounds good to me! ☺
Nice vid
Thanks Tony.
Lekker man lekker
Dankie!
Great video. How long did it take you to install the alternator boost modules?
Probably about 4 hours once we had all the components and we did some testing. Actual times after running around to get everything 3 days hahah
Hi Guys. We have our Cat in PR. Now stuck in CT too and Lockdown level 3 we still cannot fly out. So me wife said jokingly if we go back to level 5, we could escape the madhouse and join the diaspora. When are you planning to leave CT for the Bahamas? I am also concerned, that if you leave soon, you will be caught between the devil and the deep blue sea....literally, because over 6 weeks from now is middle of hurricane season in Bahamas. Please do fill us in.
Heya Guys , no plans just yet will have to wait and see what happens with all the levels . We working at the moment doing lithium installs on a few yachts , once that is done we can start planning again. Not too worried about hurricane season, if we leave early we might stop off in Brazil for sometime until the season is over .
@@livingwiththemaias Hi Guys, before you sail to the #2-infestested Covid-country of the world right now, rather spend the winter in CT and try to earn some more money. The Bahamas will still be there at the end of the year or early next year... Or come up to RB and let's sail to Madagaskar, once the borders are open again :-)
Ricky & Simone! We so envy you being able to live on your boat after this long refit. We decided to go back to Sweden, and are now up at 29 months on our trimaran refit. Might return to Mexico by the end of this year but corona craziness need to have settled. It's always worrying leaving the boat for a longer period. We are almost done...but you two knows it just as well, there is always more than u think. haha. I dont rememeber if I have asked you before or if you have been talking about it, but how long time was the refit schedule to take at first? Don't laugh now...but we scheduled 3 months....hahaha. Everytime we watch your episodes...it's almost like watching ourselves, haha. ..but then again, we havnt launched :( All the best to you guys!
Haha yeah we said 4 months 😂 at least we can laugh at ourselves. That's the main thing. Good luck guys!
@@livingwiththemaias Haha, well feels good to hear we not were the only one :D
Hooray finally caught up to you guys and follow you in real time, hoping to see you on the open water soon. Lady Africa looking sexy you've done an ACCEPTIONAL job.
Thank you ☺
Unless an alternator is made for commercial use (say like a real truck or machinery) don't believe the ratings on the label. Yeah, they can do about 90% of what they're rated but if you try to do that for any length of time, they'll fry. Industrial alternators have big cases, strong bearings, big fans, and good electronics. Probably not good to ask them to do too much while at idle (low rpm) either. what is the running temp inside the engine compartment, electronics in there don't like it too hot. A car or truck engine get lots of fresh air while driving.
Linda bonita modelo quero ver você desfilando de biquíni neste lindo barco luxuoso
Still much safer with systems being separate period . If it fails it destroys yours expensive batteries .... do your homework most people keep them separate .
How do you want to keep them seperate? House bank is protected for over volt , under volt and over current. System is solid
Sailing Lady Africa ... why would you sail with two water pumps redundancy , if a failure occurs in your system and you lose power how do you start the motor in the advent of an emergency ... kill the one system ... what’s your plan ?