Our Recommended Drop-In LifePo4 Batteries
Rod, What are your Recommended Drop-In Batteries for Marine Use? Disclaimer: I still type with one finger as my left arm is still 100% paralyzed. Typo's happen [...]
Power Queen LiFePo4 Problems
Critical LifePo4 BMS Data You Should Not Be Without! The Critical Information You Miss In the image above this brand new 100Ah PowerQueen, (no bluetooth BMS) has [...]
How Many Poles Does My Alternator have?
Determining How Many Alternator Poles You Have The above is a question we get routinely From Diesel engine owners. Why on Earth would [...]
AGM vs. LiFePO4 Longevity
AGM vs. LiFePO4 The AGM Bank This short article takes a look at two real world use battery banks used on cruising boats, a 2.5 year old [...]
Counterfeit Electrical Components – Just Say NO!
Counterfeit Electrical Components I got an email from a reader that his "Blue Sea" Battery switch melted. He was going on& on about [...]
Terminating Bare Wire Ends
Ferrule Crimping Tools Left to Right; DMC USA, PRO's Kit (Taiwan), Baomain (China), Inexpensive (China),Inexpensive (China), Knipex-Rennsteig(Germany) Top; Klein Katapult (Taiwan), Iwiss (China) [...]
Don’t Get Scammed Buying LiFePO4
How to Avoid Sleazy Vendors Easy, Don't Import directly from China on your own Vendors will lie and think nothing of it: This [...]
SPADE & QUICK-CONNECT TERMINALS
TERMINOLOGY MATTERS ABYC E-11 If I had a dime for every-time a reader or customer has called a Faston, friction-fit, quick-disconnect or quick-connect [...]
Li-Ion – Be Careful What you Read/Believe
NEWS = Misinformation If you been anything but living under a rock for the last three years you're likely well aware that our [...]
RTFM – (Read the Freakin’ Manual)
RTFM! Hardly a day goes by where we don't say to a reader or customer "Did you actually open the installation manual?" One [...]
Choose Your Battetry Chargers Carefully!!
There are a few things that I can't stand; #1 well marketed products that actually suck in reality. #2 Pop-up brands ( pop-up [...]
Drop-In LiFePO4 Batteries – Be an Educated Consumer
Lead is Dead (almost) Warning: This article is long and detailed. It may require two reads so the nuances and detail are not [...]
Marine Wire Labeling
Brother P-Touch & Tze Labels I get asked quite a bit how I label wires on boats and finally got around to an answer. Technically this is [...]