Moonstruck
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- Moonstruck
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- Sabre 42 Hardtop Express
'nuff said.
*Carl, sorry to be late in answering your question.* Half day.* We paid for overnite shipment of a new inverter.* I would not have ordered the replacement, but for the fact that I did not want to change the wiring.* Time was important.* We left St. Augustine at 1335 hrs. yesterday, stopped in Fernandina Beach at FL Petroleum for 270 gal of diesel at $3.95/gal.* Then it was on to Jekyll Island, GA by 1830hrs.* Hilton Head tonight. Standby for breaking news!Old Stone wrote:
How many days will you lose?
*Carl, sorry to be late in answering your question.* Half day.* We paid for overnite shipment of a new inverter.* I would not have ordered the replacement, but for the fact that I did not want to change the wiring.* Time was important.* We left St. Augustine at 1335 hrs. yesterday, stopped in Fernandina Beach at FL Petroleum for 270 gal of diesel at $3.95/gal.* Then it was on to Jekyll Island, GA by 1830hrs.* Hilton Head tonight. Standby for breaking news!Moonstruck wrote:Old Stone wrote:
How many days will you lose?
*My dime.** 2 years old.*The rest of the trip is spectacular.* However there are some later developments that I will go into later.*Pineapple Girl wrote:
*under warranty or on your dime?* I hope that otherwise the trip is good!
*Walt, we came through the Georgia section of the ICW yesterday arriving Hilton Head Island, SC about 1530hrs.* I know of no other waterway like it.* 100 miles with mostly nothing but marsh grass on either side of you.* It twists and turns like a serpent.* It will look like you are meeting a boat, but around the next bend you are passing it.* The green head or yellow flies were out in force.* They can take a hunk of flesh when they bite.* We passed about 30-40 open cockpit boats with the occupants swatting th** e flies.* They*tried to get in Moonstruck, but we were closed in air conditioned comfort.SeaHorse II wrote:
Don:
Glad to see that you are still "right side up." Cruising in that "raggedy old Sabre" must be a real pucker factor at times. I envy you.
*I'm a little hazy on the past as well, but I recall that Xantrex was a smallish company based in a Vancouver, B.C. suburb that had just come out with it's first sine-wave inverter (They already had a successful line of 12VDC chargers).* I bought one of the very first of their high-frequency inverter/chargers in 1998, a ProSine 2500.windmist wrote:
Sunchaser,
That not the story I have heard for many years. About a decade ago Xantrex was formed by buying Freedom, Prosine and Trace, all makers of fairly decent charging and inverter equipment and giving good support. Xantrex then tore these companies apart, keeping the pieces that made the most money for them. Some Trace engineers left and formed Outback to make a much better inverter and later some more engineers left Xantrex after they tried to get the management to improve the product. They formed Magnum, which in my opinion is the best inverter around AND they give great service. I have owned an Outback inverter and had no problems with the equipment or the service. I now own a Magnum and am very happy with it. For the new boat I choose Magnum over Outback because of the ease of turning off the charger if I choose. A simple button press for the Magnum versus a menu change for the Outback.
Ron
Well, if you're asking me, I don't know what to tell you as I have not investigated Magnum or Outback or any others.sunchaser wrote:
So, the bottom line is Magnum makes a good inverter ??