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F. ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
DC SYSTEM (12 VOLT BATTERIES)
This system powers lights, pumps, electronics, anchor windlass and engine start. There are
two banks of batteries forward in the engine room, the portside bank is engine start batteries
and the starboard side bank is house and inverter batteries.
There are three battery selector switches one in the wheel house and two forward in the
engine room.
The red selector switch located on the forward bulkhead in the engine room marked
“MAIN”
should be left in the
“ON” position. (i.e. house bank).
A red selector switch located on the forward bulk head in the engine room marked
“inverter”
is the inverter switch and should be left in the
“ON” position again to save your engine start
bank.
The red main generator DC switch is also on the forward engine room bulkhead and marked
“Generator.” This switch should be left in the “ON” position in order to be able to start the
generator.
The engine start selector switch is located on the engine room forward bulkhead; this switch
should be left in the
“BOTH” position.
In the event of dead start batteries:
The engine start selector switch can be placed in the both position tying the house, inverter
and engine start battery
’s together providing the additional power needed to start the
engines. Once the engines have started switch back to position #2.
The engine start bank located on the portside consists of two 4D batteries. The house and
inverter bank located on the starboard side consist of 8 - 6 volt batteries. The generator batter
is also a 4D battery located starboard side aft. The main cabin lights operate from the AC
breaker marked
“Cabin Outlets.”
GENERATOR
•
Prior to starting the generator turn everything off on the AC panel.
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On the AC panel, switch shore power off and generator On
• To start generator:
Hold down Preheat toggle. Preheat 30 seconds
Depress both start and pre heat toggles to start
.
• Once the generator starts
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Release both switches
o
Turn on the desired equipment to be used on the AC panel.
