Electrical Systems 101

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At first electrical systems onboard a boat can seem complex and confusing and that's when the boat is new! Add a couple of owners and several years of upgrades into the mix and could end up with a really complicated setup. It doesn't have to be this way, and you don't always need a professional onboard when something is working quite right. 

Learn what you have, how it works, and pick up some extra skills along the way!

This first video goes into some of the basics and what you might find on board your boat. Just a couple of really important points:

• Don't play with mains voltage! - We're not coving 110-240v ac. We might talk about a charger but wiring anything on the AC side won't be covered.
• Be careful with any test equipment and read the manual first to avoid any damage to yourself or your equipment
• Know how to shut things down before you do anything - Where is the isolator switch?

In this video we take a look at the features of this charger and also some of the information that can be monitored from it. We remove the old charge and install this one and we also connect this to the rest of the Victron kit using VE Smart Networking. This allows the charger to understand the voltage and ampage at the battery and modify its output to match the charge profile.