Thanks for a very insightful explanation of your electrical system. I enjoy hearing about life aboard along with stories from your experiences ashore.

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Best wishes for continued success in your voyage.

Glad to read all is well. (in case you are not aware of this) On our N43, 8kw genset you must change the impeller every 150 hours of use or impeller blades will start disintegrating and you will have to fish out the rubber bits from the genset. We lost all impeller blades at 350 hours and turned a 30 minute exercise into a 3 hour labor of joy.

Owen

You mentioned that you’re powering your dive compressor from your 8kw generator. Is this your hookah (Sea Breathe type) compressor or an air tank compressor? We want to install a dive tank compressor on our boat but have been told by several dive shops that that we need a minimum 10kw genset to do this and that our 8kw set will not be powerful enough.

Best wishes

Robert