08-12-2019, 09:07 AM
Thanks to all for thoughts and experiences related.
The LED installation works very well, mine from the person recommended by Duncan and also recommended by myself as very good to deal with, knowing about Sevens. The Ruby has done night driving and the VSCC Oulton Park night nav, but the Measham is through a very long night and most of the journey up the A49 to the start will be in darkness which is why I wanted extra capacity. I'm not sure that the scrutes would be happy with a small generator strapped to the luggage rack.
I discovered switches that allow choice of one, or other or both batteries from seeing one aboard a friend's boat, where the jolly bargee wants to be able to keep just one battery in use for the automatic bilge pump. These are to be found at a chandlers rather than in the Demon Tweeks catalogue. On the basis of the forum one battery at a time seems to be what to do.
Whilst for the non-competing Seven an alternator might be helpful, one discovered by a scrute would lead to the formal pronouncement of an anathema, and possible exile to Siberia. Eligibility for nav rallies and similar events requires being pre-war and turning up. Sometimes those of us who cannot satisfy the VSCC's somewhat arcane requirements of being "PVT" are sent into lower classes where we belong, but generally most welcome, and specially for Inter-Reg events.
Now does anyone know of a source of the strap to keep the battery safely tight, or were they such a small and unexciting item that no used straps were ever put on dusty shelves in sheds?
The LED installation works very well, mine from the person recommended by Duncan and also recommended by myself as very good to deal with, knowing about Sevens. The Ruby has done night driving and the VSCC Oulton Park night nav, but the Measham is through a very long night and most of the journey up the A49 to the start will be in darkness which is why I wanted extra capacity. I'm not sure that the scrutes would be happy with a small generator strapped to the luggage rack.
I discovered switches that allow choice of one, or other or both batteries from seeing one aboard a friend's boat, where the jolly bargee wants to be able to keep just one battery in use for the automatic bilge pump. These are to be found at a chandlers rather than in the Demon Tweeks catalogue. On the basis of the forum one battery at a time seems to be what to do.
Whilst for the non-competing Seven an alternator might be helpful, one discovered by a scrute would lead to the formal pronouncement of an anathema, and possible exile to Siberia. Eligibility for nav rallies and similar events requires being pre-war and turning up. Sometimes those of us who cannot satisfy the VSCC's somewhat arcane requirements of being "PVT" are sent into lower classes where we belong, but generally most welcome, and specially for Inter-Reg events.
Now does anyone know of a source of the strap to keep the battery safely tight, or were they such a small and unexciting item that no used straps were ever put on dusty shelves in sheds?