Battery Cable Size?

[Yobarnacle]

Thanks Geo. Ok! Scratch that. Trying to figure out what to do about the bowl of spaghetti wiring I left. I've got 6 batteries under center cockpit in former engine box, and 4 batteries aft in small cabin, in former quarter berths. Only the trolling motor hooked to aft batteries for now. Before only had them hooked to forward batteries. Want to get the batteries all hooked together. Also need a charging circuit. Arrangement now is to manually move aligator clips battery to battery.
Want something more automatic.

[viking north]

Well now thats something I can help with It's my field . I'm a former radar/comm teck with the RCAF, and have a civilian CET rating in electrical/electronics, I think we can have a go at it. Nice clean work also ===Geo.

[Yobarnacle]

thanks Geo. My understanding of electronics and elictrical systems is purely mechanical. I can and have wired a house I built. But thats just running wiring and hooking up boxes and fixtures.
I have built computers, but thats just putting micro boards in their slots in the mother board, and screwing the hardware components together and hooking up ribbon cables.
I can calculate watts from volts and amps.
I'm pretty ignorant about theory.

[viking north]

Ahhhhh Grasshopper a much qualified assistant with a refrigerator to keep a few beer cold. No prob by the time she's wired, a diploma of electrical qualifications can be issued.(I'm a licenced electrical/electronic Instructor) Pay--no hard currancy please-I have no green card but no law says you can't issue a 50 ton rating ---Geo,

[Yobarnacle]

Im a good wrench passer and beer gofer, sensei

In US I cant give licenses, but I can write a letter attesting to equivalency.

[Yobarnacle]

Canadian and British Commonwealth captains can issue lower tonage licenses?

[Yobarnacle]

I can teach sextant navigation, if you don't already know it, and want a zero battery drain back up to your GPS

[viking north]

Either way when crossing at the 50th' latitude keep the north star at approx. the same reading and heading west from Northern Ireland one should hit Labrador --turn left and presto there's the rest of Nort America. Works just as well in reverse. Thats the way the old boys out of Bristol did it. -- However my long distance sailing days are over --Coastal boy now --Never did learn the sextant --have one --have the tables --thats as far as it got--

[Yobarnacle]

sextant navigation is simple. On his first voyage as a clipper captain, only 19 years old, Nathaniel Bowditch taught navigation to evert man in his crew including the cook. This was the days most seamen were illiterate.

Lesson #1: How can you tell your latitude from Polaris?
answer: Your latitude is equal to Polaris altitude.
Polaris 60 degrees high? Your in 60 degree North latitude.
(Within 1 degree. Last page of almanac has 3 small i/3 page tables of corrections to refne out that degree)

class dismissed