One thing I meant to report on (but didn’t cos of the rush to get the ribs and chicken) was the results of the G2 upgrade to the hybrid system. Until now all we had were the reports from other owners that the upgrade was good. Well – what a difference. Dignity glided out on electric power from Nanny Cay as smooth as silk without a great deal of depletion of the stored power. Once the sails were up the regeneration kicked in. With wind speeds around 15kts the amps being put back in were not as great as we experienced back in Feb when the winds we 20kts and I got good performance data. That being said I no longer need to fiddle with settings to find the best output. We did not sail long enough to see any real benefit, that will come in time. I did play around with combinations of motor, sail, with and without generator running to see the differences. The results are very encouraging.
We had lots of erroneous gauge readings which required us use the manual reset on the mother board during our recent charter aboard the Martha R out of TMM. It was also not correctly shutting down the generator when it reached full charge. It is good to hear that you are not experiencing similar problems with Dignity.
I will watch out for this. I haven’t reached that point. With longer sails I may not even choose to run the generator to full charge as I will be looking to fully charge on the move. With the solar panels I intend to install I won’t have a dependency on the 72V system to cross charge the house bank under most circumstances.