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This shoots all day and recycles fast shooting two 150ws and one 300ws flashpoint strobes. I'll get a smaller battery to cut down on the weight for shorter shoots. But beats using a generator with that E10 crap.
Inside wiring of the power box ... still have some wire holders to put in to pretty it up a bit, otherwise all the wiring is done
Front of my home-built astronomy box affectionately named the "AstroPig 140"
Full write-up pdf (in case anyone is interested): www.eprisephoto.com/power-box-project.pdf
A rack mounted example of a 48V bank for mobile base stations charged by wind, comprising deep cycle 2V batteries linked together.
90% done now. Everything but the GFCI outlet are in and wired. . . paint still drying in this photo hence the splotches.
6" pneumatic wheels attached. USB out port mounted near the pull handle and back panel mounted. Main wiring, cigarette lighter adapters, GFCI outlet, circuit breaker, and switches to go in next. Coming along slowly but surely
Side showing the USB out to computer terminal. . . paint still drying in this photo hence the splotches.
Inverter now mounted underneath the palette and back panel now attached. Tested the battery tender out yesterday - worked great and ran a quick test on the inverter and USB hub today - also working great.
Labeled view of back inside panel
The USB hub is currently unplugged as I am switching out its power cord to go to the 5v step down controller that I just finished installing.
Back before the GFCI outlet goes in (it will be over by the switch. . . paint still drying in this photo hence the splotches.
Running a few tests to make sure everything works well . . . left is with lights on and right is with them off. The red LEDs really reflect off of my garage floor but shouldn't be quite as bright outside
Here you can see where the motor/adapter plate will bolt up to, and just above them, the two 12vdc deepcycle batteries will mount within the tiller cage.
GFCI outlet is in and air vent installed. The air vent (one on front and back) will allow a cross flow of air around the inverter when it is on.
...and Leif Ericksen would know which lines to pull and how to handle the tiller.
There's not much on my boat that wouldn't be familiar to sailors from millennia past. Even the new stuff--the 5 gallon bucket with snap-tight lid, for example (guess what that's for?)--they'd probably figure out.
As Sankara goes through her 50-year re-fit, I'm impressed with how unchanged the fundamental boat is from the craft that sailed the ancient world.
Sure, I yanked out the 50s-vintage knotmeter and will replace the old-timey depth sounder, but most of what's on this boat is "original equipment", that is, stuff the original guys would have used. A fair amount of it is strewn from the boatyard to the back deck, the garden to the garage--but it's all boaty--I just hope I can find it when it starts going back together.
Okay--there's a "new" used Perkins diesel, there will be GPS, big 12V deepcycle batteries--but that's just icing on a very basic cake. I feel a comradery with the sailors of those early times--and for the boatbuilders as well. The late, great boatbuilder Bob Prothero said, "the boatwrights from those early days--with just hand tools and muscle, it would take a half dozen men a half a year to build a boat--but you guys, with your power tools, pneumatic compressors, new-age technology, why six guys can build a boat in about six months!"
Thicker lead plates and terminals used in deep cycle AGM. Absorbent glass mat (AGM) is a class of VRLA lead-acid battery in which the electrolyte is absorbed into a fiberglass mat.
Yesterday I ran the boombox continuously at party-volume-levels for five hours. Every 15 minutes I measured and recorded the battery voltage, and at the end I drew a graph.
I think the data is telling me that I could run this thing blasting out dance music at party-volume for 24 hours solid without a recharge...
Science. It rocks the house, bitches.
Ember posing, her ride VS. mine.
The furry box is my charger, hidden. I don't have to open the box to charge it anymore. However, I needed to wire a 20 DPDT switch to change the battery configuration from series (24V for running the motor and lights) to parallel (12 V for charging, 12V chargers are cheap and plentiful)
Features a 1.5, 5 and 15 watt solar battery charger perfect for trickle charging deep cycle and automotive 12V batteries such as: motorcycle, ATV, snowmobile and marine batteries.
Test driving the new ride... Sintax says "No problem with acceleration or stopping. Plus it feel great to kick my feet up when I cruising... Hell yeah!!" and what Sintax says, goes.
Parallel lead acid batteries for off grid solar PV system. More pics and info at peplers.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/parallel-lead-acid-batteri...
Sintax posing. See that hat? Like it? Wanna buy one? Tough s$%t! I made it. From fabric. By myself. No pattern. It now has red where the grey lining is...
Parallel lead acid batteries for off grid solar PV system. More pics and info at peplers.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/parallel-lead-acid-batteri...