waterfront
Veteran Member
- Joined
- Apr 18, 2012
- Messages
- 54
- Location
- USA
- Vessel Name
- Waterfront
- Vessel Make
- Chein Hwa Present Sundeck 35
I recently had a terrible scare aboard. I have an electric bow thruster which has a dedicated battery. When I first bought Waterfront, a 35 ft Present Sundeck Trawler, the P.O. had not included the thruster battery into the charging system. To correct this problem I purchased a MANTA II solid state battery isolater and installed it to include all battery banks, three seperate banks. The battery for the thruster went bad and in the process of changing it out I reversed the polarity for a SHORT time, maybe 10 seconds. The battery isolater caught on FIRE!! lucky for me I had an extinguisher handy so most of the damage was from smoke. I purchased a new Sure Power isolater which is now installed. BE AWARE of the dangerous potential of fire with this isolator.