Good grief! You really need to unscrew the lid and look inside. Didn`t the surveyor peek inside either?..The previous owners had made what can only kindly be called a 'sarcophagus' for the main battery bank. I kid you not, it's literally a coffin-size box on the outboard port side of the engine room. No idea what's in there, but we noted there's a bit of a list to the port that's no doubt coming from that massive box of lead. There's even fans to/from it (you can just make out the black vent hose). I've never even seen inside the box.
I joked with my guy earlier this week it's only by random chance that nothing went wrong with the existing battery setup last season.
Good grief! You really need to unscrew the lid and look inside. Didn`t the surveyor peek inside either?
I've already committed to the idea that it's cheaper to rip-and-replace than it is to debug WTF is going on. I mean, why burn labor hours figuring out what's screwy when it may very well result in installing a whole new setup anyway? Probably not without spending more, of course, but at least it's not dozens of hours wasted figuring out "oh, it's crap, chuck it".
good grief! You really need to unscrew the lid and look inside. Didn`t the surveyor peek inside either?
"but at least it's not dozens of hours wasted figuring out "oh, it's crap, chuck it"."
Someone went to a lot of time and hassle to build the system
.Perhaps the engineering is excellent?
Most DC setups are simple enough to be understood in about 15 min.
Might be worthwhile to look to see what you actually have before junking it.