tiltrider1
Guru
- Joined
- Aug 2, 2017
- Messages
- 5,191
- Location
- Pacific North West
- Vessel Name
- AZZURRA
- Vessel Make
- Ocean Alexander 54
I’m not trying to convince anyone that what I did is the best way. It’s just one of many ways and it worked very well for me.
I was having some ELCI tripping issues. I was pretty certain that I had found the issue but I was leaving in 7 days for a month long trip overseas. To make matters worse I had just loaded $1,500 worth of King Crab into the boats freezer. The last thing I wanted was an ELCI trip while I was gone.
So, I purchased a couple of Blink Cameras and set them up so that I could monitor my electrical panel. I was able to read all my gauges and the inverter panel.
Twice a day I would check, I could read my amps on both L1 and L2. I could see if the inverter was charging or inverting and I could see if any circuits had tripped. In the end everything worked and I had no issues.
There was however, one unexpected event. The Camera system caught a family member who came on board and raided my wine stocks. The camera filmed the event and even notified me through the phone as the event happened.
This was really a non event as the member had my permission to do exactly what they had done. They were just a bit surprised to get a text from me the next day asking how the wine was.
Now that I am home I have turned off the cameras but I plan to use them again during my next trip. Monitoring costs only $10 a month on a monthly subscription. The cameras cost me $60 for 2. I can pan & tilt, turn on & off lights as well as speak thru the cameras.
Like I said, just another way to monitor your boat.
I was having some ELCI tripping issues. I was pretty certain that I had found the issue but I was leaving in 7 days for a month long trip overseas. To make matters worse I had just loaded $1,500 worth of King Crab into the boats freezer. The last thing I wanted was an ELCI trip while I was gone.
So, I purchased a couple of Blink Cameras and set them up so that I could monitor my electrical panel. I was able to read all my gauges and the inverter panel.
Twice a day I would check, I could read my amps on both L1 and L2. I could see if the inverter was charging or inverting and I could see if any circuits had tripped. In the end everything worked and I had no issues.
There was however, one unexpected event. The Camera system caught a family member who came on board and raided my wine stocks. The camera filmed the event and even notified me through the phone as the event happened.
This was really a non event as the member had my permission to do exactly what they had done. They were just a bit surprised to get a text from me the next day asking how the wine was.
Now that I am home I have turned off the cameras but I plan to use them again during my next trip. Monitoring costs only $10 a month on a monthly subscription. The cameras cost me $60 for 2. I can pan & tilt, turn on & off lights as well as speak thru the cameras.
Like I said, just another way to monitor your boat.