Because we will be living on our boat for a long time to come we decide on a Xantrex 2000 watt charger\inverter. We may never need all that but we may grow into it.
We may sail to Costa Rica and then eventually up to San Francisco. Or farther south etc.
So we have purchased a Xantrex Freedom modified sin wave charger\inverter.
Because of space considerations we chose a unite that had both instead of separate unites.
We chose a modified sin wave because it run on one fan most of the time. We wanted as much quiet as possible. We do not want a microwave oven and do not watch much TV.
We decide on mounting the unite in the are just behind the nav station into the starboard lazarette. It is on our boat a separate are with an access door by the nav station. On the newer boats around 1981 Islander did away with this separate compartment. Any way with it there we can vent the fan heat out to the outside lazarette. Important for us as we will be in the tropics and do not need more heat in the cabin. It also offers easy access and we can put our batteries under the settee. The batteries are a total project in themselves so we wrote about them separate.
We also bought a Xantrex Link 2000 to monitor the batteries.
05/12/10 At this time we are in the process in upgrading all the battery cables to 4/0 AWG and installing a starting battery. After this is done we will buy the two cables that run from the charger inverter to the batteries and hook it up. In the mean time we are using the original charger. We moved it to this location from the aft hanging locker in the master stateroom.
This the old charger in the new location. You can see a cut away in the separation panel of the lazarett. It was for an outboard motor.
This is the old charger and batteries in the hanging locker.
This is where the charger was in the hanging locker.
Above is the old charger in the new location. You can see a cut away in the separation panel of the lazarett. It was for an outboard motor.
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