Monday 29 August The batteries cometh

Delivery day for our new, bigger, better (we sincerely hope) deep cycle house batteries. We need eight and each one weighs 30 kgs. The ones they are replacing had less lead in them and only weighed 25 kgs. The manufacturer has given us 25L of ionised water for top up as needed and the distributor who sold us the product gave me a lift to their main office to do the credit card payment. Then a ride back to the yacht club via an electronics shop to buy a specific gravity reader required to know when they need topping up. Service with a smile and a they bought and took away the old batteries for recycling (cheaper than buying virgin lead).

To get these monsters out to Jackster in the bay, Jacob who works in the shop where we bought them borrowed his friends big boat and brought them out.

Work gang outside Suva prison

Fitting wasn't quite so straight forward as the terminals were different and needed modifications to gets the series in pairs and hooked up. We're lucky that David is very capable at problem solving.