Our Victron Promaster

 Works progresses on GANNET2 and we seem to have found the cause of the problem that burned out our 110 volt battery charger. The shore power plug had crossed wires. Probably they got crossed in Brasilia and luckily Adrián checks everything.

The 110 volter inverter and charger is supposed to be in Uruguay tomorrow and Adrián is ready to install it as soon as it arrives next week. Meanwhile he is preparing to install a 220 volt plug to charge in countries that use that voltage. He inspected our 110 volt plug, the one that’s dangling above and found the crossed wires that burned out our original charger.

The 220 volt charger is the first box and it was tested yesterday: it works.

Then there is the solar charger box and the panels put out full amperage into 50 in strong winter sun. The engine charger has been dropping amperage as it warms up and Adrián is planning to move it to a separate bus bar  to fix that. 

We have a heater that ran perfectly for two hours as a test run.  There are some other jobs to do including some carpentry work.  

The parts cost is around $12,000 which digs deep. Especially as some of it is fixing mistakes made in Brasilia. But now we have a system including new batteries that could last the rest of our lives and with air conditioning heat and powerful solar panels we have a home that will be very livable. 

Adrián is looking into our rain leaks that typically wet the engine on Promasters. He may even fix them knowing him. He cleaned the engine too and got rid of our red Amazon dust.

Victron is all blue: 

Our new Victron 180 batteries, three of them faking  up so little space. 

And it’s all monitored on the phone of the owner. Amazing.