Generator Know-How, Part 2
A proper generator installation should allow ample space to access the unit for service and maintenance. Read our guidelines on generator installations, variations, and optimizations.
Author: Nigel Calder
Generator Know-How, Part 1
Boats with high electrical loads may need a standalone generator installed. Learn the what it takes to optimize an installation.
An Anode Powered by Underwater Solar Panels? Nigel Calder Has Questions
At IBEX 2024, CMP Group won an Innovation award for a wireless, impressed current sacrificial anode whose power source is a small embedded solar panel. It would have been easy… Read more »
New Waves: A Brief History of Alternator Controls
Beginning in the late 1970s, the progressive adoption of solid-state electronics into numerous components of marine electrical systems resulted in a qualitative shift in overall capabilities. These were years that… Read more »
Volvo-Penta’s Bid to Future-Proof IPS
New Professional Platform brings IPS pod drives to commercial and hybrid vessels.
What Is, and Why Is There, a Circular Mil (CM)?
As you’re wiring or rewiring a boat, you’ll need to include wire diameters in the calculations necessary to determine compliance with ABYC and ISO standards. The AWG conductor-sizing system… Read more »
Derating Standards for Bundled Wires
In Professional BoatBuilder No. 195, contributing editor Nigel Calder’s “Amped Up” explores the effects of increasingly high-amperage onboard DC systems that exceed the capacities of standard marine-grade electrical cabling and… Read more »
Advances in Onboard Solar
Advancements and refinements in onboard solar power technology offer significant opportunities for marine applications, but with innovation comes complexity. For a decade or so, in the technically, financially, and politically… Read more »
South African Boatbuilders revisited
In 2002, as an effort to promote the country’s then budding industry, the newly created South African Boatbuilders Business Council persuaded the government to pay for 10 international boating journalists,… Read more »
A Tale of Two Companies
I have been tracking, and writing about, the technical side of recreational boating for three decades. In that time, I have come across, or been approached by, numerous inventors and… Read more »
