I'm looking at converting a sailboat diesel auxillary to a skeg-cooled dry exhaust system, for simplicity and low service requirements. It seems...
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Thats rather curious... What vehicles and applications is the Perkins common rail engine found? I'd never heard of it.
I don't USE an engine "deep sea". I don't want to get into that here.
Hey Dieselguy, thanks for joining in. I've been reading about the TDi and the information available is huge. A typical 40ft 10tonne sailboat...
I might be aiming too high with the Ford DLD. It's too modern an ECU and there's no hacking at all been done on it. Dropping back a level to the...
I doubt you will get away with cooling the aftercooler from the keel - well, it will function but it won't "cool" anything. It seems to me you...
I'm filtering for people interested in working on marinisation of a modern common rail engine, in particular the Ford/PSA DLD engines for sailboat...
Nah, I hear this nonsense traipsed out all the time and it's wrong. I've run diesels (non-marine) professionally for 30 years, and 99% of the...
The example system that they mention is so ridiculously overloaded as to laughable. As to their invented "algorithm" I think it is equally...
Here's an article about it. This is trickle charging, ie constant current. (The alternative is float charging - constant voltage, requires a...
Yes, I missed that bit out... The batteries can tolerate a continuous input charge current of some small percentage of their AH rating, without...
Where is the modern technology?? Modern worm-drive angle gearboxes, variable-speed variable-torque programmable AC drives, multi-KVA level...
Use two small panels of about 15-20W each. Wire them directly to their respective battery. Don't use a controller/regulator. Don't use bigger...
This is correct. There are two ways of connecting PV arrays. Low PV array voltage (parallel), for better controller efficiency. High PV array...
What you need is a system that will begin charging on the tiniest sniff of light, and keep going. You need a few things ; A high PV array...
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I'm still deciding whether to buy the yacht, not quite ready to make a mast for it! :) I wonder if a notch on the outside would provide...
Stick with the above-ground bit, and look down kindly on the insane madmen with knit brow who assemble the monstrous machine during the night...
