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Old 04-27-2016, 08:55 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by THD View Post
On the ABTs and any other hydraulic stabilizers, the issue would be the source of the hydraulic power. We have ABT-Tracs, but not the zero speed version. And we would not be without them. Ours is set up with hydraulic pumps on both engines. The system runs on only one pump, normally the starboard one, with the port pump being a backup. A simple switch changes the pumps. On the zero speed, the hydraulic power has to come off the generator at zero speed. Best setup would be a pump on a propulsion engine and one on the genny. Use the engine mounted one when underway and the genny one when anchored. Of course, the genny has to running constantly for the system to work. Seems to me that you would have to anchor a lot and in some pretty rolly anchorages to justify the zero speed and to have the genny running constantly while anchored. We have never felt the need to look into upgrading our system.

You're better off using an electric hydraulic power pack to run the stabilizers at rest.

Larger boats run their gennys 24/7.

And the system can work at the dock as well.
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