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It’s a good point that the side force on the traveller being higher up causes it to tilt a bit and likely puts the pressure on just a few bearings. I like the double car idea as well.

That would be awesome, mind taking a few picts first to make sure it’s worth your time to ship? Another idea might be to mount a track on the top of the boom that could also replace the current slot trolley that is used to bring out the main sail, a stainless loop could then be made that went...

Good call on the boom, I’ve had a few yards tell me it will be fine but one to watch. The po replaced it with a much heavier duty boom when he put this system in. As far as the current traveller its been restored twice so something isn’t working, my hypothesis is that the traveler tilts...

That ronstand is exactly what I was picturing, more similar to industrial hoist trolleys. I’ll have to go look how much clearance I have, the I track looks about .75” higher than the current T track. Lower weight limit but still way above the tender. It looks like the tracks just might have...

Hi, My current dinghy launch setup works ok but has one weak point that I worry about both from a safety and usability perspective, especially as I get older. The tender launches via the boom on the main mast and uses a track and car with a hoist mounted on the end of the boom to extend the...

Not as long as it should have, it looks like it might have had a slight shaft seal leak which I never noticed, my guess is sitting for 10 months plus that did it in.

I’m leaning this direction, I can see in my desire to make things easier I could make it a lot more complicated. The one change might be to switch to 120v AC, it’s a fair point that inverters don’t fail often and I could use the DC signal to activate a relay/switch. Since I doubt there is a...

Correct on the naiad system (I believe), adding a much larger hydraulic heat exchanger would work fine as I’m guessing the naiad one could simply be capped at the water inlet and outlet. That would require new hydraulic lines plus some creativity in the raw water lines to the main as I’m tight...

Right, but in my case the naiad cooler is 1/2npt, in series it would cut down flow way too much considering my whole engine raw water loop is 2” (I’d need to confirm that but it’s significantly larger)

I think my AC pump is overkill right now as it was sized for 3 heat pumps, I’ve never had overheat issues before so that groco flow was fine. Once I get a replacement in I’ll measure as it would be good to know.

The electric side, it’s looks like the cost of the motor isn’t much different than a whole new unit. I was inspired by Don yesterday to switch to hydraulic but the more I read the more I’m thinking about just buying 2 pumps and making the electrical a bit easier to swap underway. Likely not...

It’s after so it’s a centrifugal. https://www.fisheriessupply.com/groco-centrifugal-industrial-and-automotive-circulation-pump/cp-20-bbwa-12v

I believe the old pump was rated for 17gpm, it’s mounted below the water line, the exit is a few inches above but does go though an anti siphon loop. Good point in changing it quickly. While I could easily switch the water lines hydraulic adds to the complexity.

Ahh ok, so is that a heat exchanger/cooler, what I need is a raw water pump that can run the loop that feeds my naiad internal heat exchanger.

Thanks for the lead on primetime pumps, I’m going to talk to the tri county folks about the complexity of adding to the hydraulic loop otherwise will likely go with the dc version. I don’t have redundancy in my 120v system so trying to keep all critical operating systems off of it.

I am not an expert on hydraulic systems but I believe the pumps are significantly more reliable, it also eliminates the need for an extra relay, etc to turn on the electric pump.

Maybe I don’t fully understand the idea to tap into the raw water for the main, it is a wet exhaust but has a much larger inlet and outlet, I’m not sure I’d want to mess with that, also that would run hoses in inconvenient places. The AC pump is fine in an emergency but I’d rather not have my...

Hi, I have the Multisea ii stabilizers and my 12v water circ pump failed (groco vp-20-bbwa). I’m talking to Don on Starr he suggested moving to a hydraulic driven water pump to eliminate the 12v pump. Does anyone have a hydraulic driven cooling pump on similar sized stabilizers and can you...

Once you setup the Maretron fpm100 (the box will take several pressure transducers) you can set what you want that channel to output and it will use standard n2k sentences for tank level, customizable across black, drinking, grey, fuel and custom (if memory serves me right). Any plotter or...

I went through this on my k54 which had two pumps, a main pump for the bow thruster and a second pump for the stabilizers. Depending on your setup you might not have enough room to get a large variable pump in front of the engine, I did not. The other consideration as I talked to folks was new...

If you can tap into the draw side on the bottom of the tank use a pressure transducer (0-3 I believe) and Maretron FPM100. This is by far the most accurate way to measure in my opinion. I wasted a bunch of money on other solutions until I moved to this approach. In the Maretron setup you can...

Ahh do you mean the companion apps that let you semi control or view the tzt? My understanding is those don’t use navnet and directly communicate with the tzt over ip, can do so over either interface. I played with them a few years ago and never found a use for them either so forgot about...

Ahh sorry I meant connect your tzt3 to your non-navnet wifi/router via the tzt3 wifi interface, then navnet via the rj45 to a tplink switch or similar (that was the one recommended by one of them). When you say apps do you mean iPad apps?

A bit late to this thread but ive had no issues with N2KView crashing, looks like it’s been running since August without an issue (I must have rebooted the computer in august). I do run it on a dedicated windows 10 machine that I stripped down, disabled windows update, etc. the only things on...

Out of curiosity why mix the personal network and navnet? The Furuno and TZ folks have seen some odd behavior on navnet even when using certain switches, ungrounded cables, etc. I am not sure I’d want my Apple TV, streaming music, network video cameras, etc all on the same ip and physical...