The weather improved significantly yesterday so we were back into project mode. The current focus is finishing off the boxing up of the new house battery bank. Helen cut up the old 8D battery box lids so we can cover the 10 batteries sitting in the welded boxes. I focused on cutting wood and building a box for the final two batteries.
I made the box a bit too small at first and the interior angle brackets prevented the batteries from sliding into the box. Helen had the bright idea of putting the brackets on the outside of the box so I started again, this time ending up with a box with a very snug fit. The it was fiber glassing the bottom of the box to create a waterproof section in case of minor spills and leaving that to set. In the middle of all this we went to lunch with Inga, Hal and Jim where we were able to drop off some parts we’d picked up for Hal.
Today we should be able to finish the job off. I hope to install a separate fuse for the house bank charger and mount the dive tank rack I picked up down in Trinidad.
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