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I am owned by Pauline and Mark Blasky. My hull was built at the Duncan Marine Yard in Taiwan and launched in Dec of 1980. It is a William Garden design based on the Pixie Design and called by Duncan Marine a Freedom 45. They are the fourth owners and have owned me the longest. They have done extensive refitting to me including replacing my entire deck structure and rig. My masts are roughly 10% taller than original and now are made of aluminium as opposed to the original wood ones, which, though pretty, were always problematic. You can read more about me under "MORE ABOUT SARI TIMUR"

May 25, 2014

The New Batteries are In

We have installed the new batteries.  Or more importantly we have removed the old ones.  The old ones were very badly deformed when we pulled them out.  We replaced 6 Trojan T105s with 2 CCB 12DD-200s.  This required rewiring the bank and eliminating loads of jumper wires.  We did lose some amp hours but we think the new solar panels will make up for it.  Anyway the boat electrics sure seem to be happier for it.  The flickering lights and jumping gauges have started working normal.  So we can only assume motors, pumps and instruments are enjoying the change as well.

This is what the new batteries look like.


2 comments:

  1. Let us know how it works out. Seems to be a more efficient, less complicated system. Austin & Belinda

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  2. Yes but they are a lot heavier to put in and will be to take out. We should of went for the 8D size which would have given us another 110 amp hours but they weighed 75 kg each!

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