Outboard? Not the perfect solution, but the Pursuit OS385 has better offshore capabilities with decent speed and accommodations. About the same...
Battery charger should be putting out around 14V. Batteries will slowly drop to around 12V without the charger, jump back up to 14V with the...
What is common between the engines and generator on this boat? Battery, fuel, raw water? Does this happen with only both engines, or only with...
Freezing rain. Rain from warmer air above into below-freezing air, ground, and boats below. The rain drop may be supercooled, below freezing but...
Geneva Switzerland, January 2005, freezing rain. . [ATTACH]
Those solenoids were likely manufactured on the same assembly line one after the other. Maybe they had a manufacturing problem that day and both...
How much over full? The marks on the stick normally are for full and one-quart low. If it is about the same distance above full as to the...
Sounds like you have repaired one boat, and it is floating and feels like a good experience, and you want to do another. Perhaps you are thinking...
Out for a walk, this is parked outside my hotel. Looks plenty contemporary in this color and with the blackout headlights. I've had a string of...
It sounds like he is considering this a DIY project. Perhaps he's a marine electrician and mechanic and plumber and upholsterer and metals...
AC or DC: http://supersonicinc.com/tv-home-theater/led-tv/sc-1511 or: http://supersonicinc.com/tv-home-theater/led-tv-dvd/SC-1512 Sceptre also...
If you might be losing voltage somewhere, test the voltage across the battery posts (not clamps), and then across the battery clamps, and then as...
How about a bigger swim platform, on a lift? Mine is 4' deep and a couple feet off the water, wife uses it to lay out, sets a couple chairs out...
I've long heard it was bad to idle diesels, but over-the-road truckers idle their trucks all night quite often. As far as temperature, I assume...
I've spent decades in parallel engineering/management career, and flying jets. In both, load factor and duty cycles are dealt with constantly,...
So the 10-30% load factor is a lower limit, the engine isn't to be operated that low for long periods?
https://cumminsengines.com/ratings-and-definitions
I see them all the time in Japan, less frequently in China and Europe. Would love to bring home a nice 70-series.
The 80% load comment does not nullify the infrequent 10-30% load factor rating, it just muddies the definition.
Toyota is extremely good at market analysis, I don't doubt there are people with more money than I who like their Lexus designs. If people like...