Call out survey of troubleshooting power supply issue on Jet Engine boat
Initial Survey process:
Situation at hand:
The new project is rewire and upgrade all the electrical cables to marine code standard. The previous owner saved either at the wrong parts or most of the time here the owner hire unqualified marine electricians in order to save money.
Unfortunately I have seen that in my over 30 years of experience to often that because; “you cant see electricity” its considered not that important to take care of on a boat. But rather “Cosmetics” is important, how the boat looks to impress his friends or whom ever the owners want to impress. I totally agree, a boat needs to look fine like a lady and she needs to be taken care of the same way, otherwise she will give you trouble.
The new owner run into a critical problem while out at sea with his family during a leisure trip -he could not start the engines anymore-. The problem we find most of the time is parasitic current. This draws the power supply very quickly empty. Resulting in flat batteries if not observed.
What is parasitic current draw?
Parasitic current draw is when non marine grade wring is used in electrical installation on boats. These will oxidize in the salt water environment and the electricity that is run trough these. Result is that less current flow from the battery to the electrical appliances.
Imagine a waterpipe gets filled up with dirt over time and lets less and less water flow trough the pipe. This decreases the output of the waterpipe.
Now the same issue you get when you use non marine graded wires that oxides and these wires now need more power from the batteries to supply your electrical appliances.
Resulting in quick drained and flat batteries if not checked. That is just a simple explanation of a parasitic current draw.
With a single battery on board that goes flat due to the above mentioned issue you cant start your engines anymore.
Result can be an expensive rescue assistance to pull your boat back to harbor in order to fix the issue. Not to mention the safety if this happens in bad weather conditions.
Client contacted us for our expertise to solve the problem:
The Client hired our Company and our expert knowledge to bring all the electrical wires and power supply to ICE standards. We surveyed the boat and found the problem. We recommend him to install a minimum of a dual battery system as his new power supply. Also, we introduced our client to our product the ACR unit to install in-between the new dual battery systems. This is a simple and cost saving way of the new power supply isolator while charging the batteries in priorities of use with the running engines alternator. When the prioritized battery is charged the ACR unit will isolate it automatically and starts charging the second battery. This guaranties our clients that you will never run into a problem of not having enough power to start your engine. And you don’t need to switch your battery combiner switch all the time. It does it all automatically for you. The Client thankfully understand the advantage of this system after we explained it to him and he agreed to let us install it.
If you want this system on your boat too, don’t hesitate and write or call us! We will help you.
Solution we offer for this kind of problem:
We highly recommend to any small or mid size boat owner as a minimum to have a dual battery power supply setup inclusive our product the ACR unit that guaranties the boat owner to never run into such an inconvenient situation of not being able to start the engines due to flat batteries out the sea.
If you are interested to know more of our product and system installation.
Don’t wait, contact us! We help you!
What is an ACR unit and what advantages is it give you?
This is our ACR Unit product that we highly recommend in a minimum of a dual battery setup. This guaranties you to never run into the problem of having a flat battery out at sea and always lets you have enough power to start your engine at any time and to come back home safely anytime.
Complete refitting of the electrical wirings
De-installation of all old and non marine grade electrical wirings
Contact us, we will help you to sort it out before the worst happens.
