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Old 10-16-2011, 07:26 PM   #11
FlyWright
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City: California Delta
Vessel Name: FlyWright
Vessel Model: 1977 Marshall Californian 34 LRC
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RE: Wellcraft Californian 34 LRC HIN

FP, Congrats on your choice. I hope it works out. Got any yachtworld links? Keep us posted on your survey.

When I bought my 34, the port tach didn't work. Whenever the alternator on that side stopped charging the batts, the tach would stop. Both alts were wired to charge both batts thru the Perko switch in the all position, so with a light charge requirement, the more powerful stbd alt would take over and the port alt would quit, and take out the tach with it. When the batts were in need of a reasonable charge, both alts came online and the tachs both worked.

Since I rewired each alternator directly to each battery bank, my tach problems have all but disappeared.
Maybe we're looking at at least two different HIN numbering systems since the earlier HINs did not include letters after the first 3 characters. Perhaps Marshall and Wellcraft (and maybe even Carver) used different systems.
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