Tag: nbKawartha
First snow
Boat painting and new name
While reversing out of our mooring at New Islington Marina we suffered a slight technicals issue… the engine stopped making happy happy noises and started sounding sad. So to continue our way up the Ashton Canal to Packet Boat Company we had some help… A big thank you to all who helped bow hall nbSteven […]
New bed
Over the weekend Bob and I have been making a new bed for nbSteven:
Photo voltaic connectors
For a while I have been planning on cleaning up the Photovoltaic cable run on nbSteven, on Amazon I found these MC4 (Multi connect) (5 Pack) and these Y leads. According to the Datasheet the they are rated to 30 A at 1000 V DC which should be more than I will need (At the […]
Ethernet, RS485 and power down a single cat 5 cable
For my boat automation system I plan to use RJ45 sockets and cat 5 cable for interconnecting the master and the nodes. Some nodes will have their own 12 V supply for larger loads, but ones that are just for switches and other transducers (sensors) will need to have 12 V delivered to them. According […]