Hello Sailor says:
No custom negotiating with tower welders and other techie stuff required, and I can see it fitting in very nicely there.
There was certainly plenty of other custom negotiation for MISTRESS. It was nice when Skip found something available that was strong enough to do what he wanted. Additionally, SS was modified to afford the mount things (sorry about that) to hold the gimbaled GPS mount, Radar, and wind generator. The bowsprit, chain plates, and a bunch of other stuff he made from scratch.
Some day, I will tell you a funny story about the very special drill that gave its life for 14 of the 16 chain plates. This very, pumped up, Taylor style drill polished the unfinished chain plates Skip made to the polished finish they are now. It was, as Skip describes its demise, a worthy, firery, spectacular death.
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No matter who I ask...the best answer I can get about really accurately measuring amps and volts on a PWM-DC system seems to involve fourier transforms and other math that glaze my eyes and hurt my head. I confess, I never took calculus and if anyone has a good PBS-video-set to recommend on it, please do.
PWM .. fourier? xformers,….. calculus …. glazed eyes,…
P. B. S. “no wait, I know that one“.
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What I want to do, is actually deep cycle some battery power in/out with the SolarStik and make the measurements based on the DC from the batteries.
I understand that.
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Thunderstorms and TORNADO WARNINGS - Heard about them from folks across the Sound from you. Somewhere, Over The Rain Bow, hmm hmmm hmmmmmmm.
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I'll tell you, it would be both easier and harder to sit all day in the sun and test that thing, if there was an iced marguerita dispenser built into it!
The new sun covers makes this much easier.
Tonight was also marguerite night. Hot days.
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I hate my computer. Every once in a while I compose a reply, go out to check a web site, come back, and everything is gone because some damned link closed the window where I was posting the reply. sigh.
Open Word while you are on line and then you can copy quotes into Word, get off line, and respond in Word, then copy and paste it on to the web site. Much easier.
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But I don't know that there is anything like that on the market, capable of holding panels up in +20 knots, much less what the SS can hold them in. (I figure, by 20 knots the wx is closing in and I'd want to stow them anyway.)
I don’t know if you are saying 20 knots because that is what SS claims, but I have already experienced above 70 twice in one day. Both my larger panels were in the down position and held completely. They did not move.
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Giulietta says, So, please in one sentence...what does the Lewis Armstrong thing do??
I think I am starting to get your sense of humor. Good one.
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Cruisingdad says,
2) … and a person would expect (with diligent turning of the panels) about a 10-20% increase over flat panels
It’s NOT diligent. I swear.
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Sailingdog says, …and how much adjusting the panels really affects actual output??
It helps to face them towards the sun.
Sailingdog says,
HS–
It's just the canine solar torture interrogation technique.
That’s funny. lol
I feel for HelloSailor. Its one thing to test a product out, it is quite different to put it down on paper and then answer questions about it.
What did he do that was so wrong that you all made him do this?
I suppose we all owe him a margarita.
Kathleen
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Schooner MISTRESS