Moved original wet cell batteries to under sattee from stateroom - 2010

April 2010 - Marina Cortez San Diego, CA

To put the batteries under the settee we need to find a way to connect them to the charger\inverter.
We decide to drill a hole under the settee floor by the water tank. Then another hole in the access hatch by the nav station. This will give us the access needed.
This is looking under the sattee floor and in one you can see the water tank, the reflection of the hole in it.

Below is looking at the sattee floor.

Below is looking in the access hatch by the nav station.

We have now moved the batteries and the old charger.

Our next project with concerning the batteries is the cables and securing the batteries so we can go sailing. We will secure them with wood and strapping this weekend.

It will take a bit longer to replace the cables. Each cable should be the same size and length respectively. Ours are not. We also will be upgrading to 4/0 cables for the inverter.
Once all the cables have been replaced and we get new cables for the new charger we will hook it up. This will take about a month.

 In that time frame we may also add our starting battery. At this time we really do not have a way to monitor the batteries for ah use. The Link 2000 hooks to the new charger so it is not in use yet.

We do have a Honda 2000 generator so if all else fails we can fire it up and of course there is Vessel Assist or we could tow it home with a dingy. Just messing around.
We would like to start anchoring out now that we have gotten the anchor to come back into the boat :).
Hope to anchor out in a few weeks.

At this time we have four six volt golf cart batteries. They are hooked in a series and then parallel. This give us two eight volt batteries and 440 amp hours. Two twenty each.