help looking for charging system

[Guest]

hi peps looking for a good cheap and simple charging system we can use on the boat any ideas?

[thirdmate]

Jonny

I assume you mean something to trickle charge in your absense when Curlew is moored up ?

Wind power is always an option. Plenty of wind driven generators around from around £35.00 upwards

[Guest]

yep thats right our bilge pump seams to be zapping the batteries dead so for now the car charger is on there while hooked upto shore power.

but looking for something simple to put the batteries to full charge when were not on the boat saves spending more cash on batteries that last less than six months

[Heron]

I too am interested in looking at wind power to keep batteries charged but have not had a lot of luck finding sites, anybody know any links?

[Guest]

would they only be like a little trickle charge like the little solar panels or will they but loads more charge back into the batteries at any one time.

[Brian]

Any wind or Solar power would be a trickle charge, unless spending £100s

Solar is rated in milliamps, while a car charger would start at 2 amps. Charging capacity

Wind and Solar are ideal to keep the battery Topped up so to speak.

[senator]

Jonny,

Am I right in assuming you have shore power at the marina but currently no mains charging system on the boat? If so how many banks of batterys are you looking to charge.

Ian

[Guest]

yes Ian mate we do have shore power at the yard and is currently connected we have got a car battery charger charging the batteries on a timer 2hours on 2 hours off. should be ok but was thinking how much it would cost to get a charger fitted to the boat.

[senator]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CONNECT-AND-FORGE ... dZViewItem

Cant work out how to put in a hyper link but if you paste this into the address bar it will get there.

Don't know if they are any good, sure someone with more technical brains will be able to let you know but £50 seemed reasonable for a marine charger.

Ian

[Stranger]

better idea Jonny cure the leak so the pump stays off longer

http://www.boatus.com/howto/howto_lib.htm

[Guest]

Thanks Dave but how does that help me?