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I did a bit of testing on the Guest charger, hooking up Both 5 amps double the charge to my battery. I was getting about 3.5 amps out of a single output wire and 7 amps once connect together. My battery was full but getting drain through the dc/dc charger, I might get a higher charge if battery...

When I install the autopilot on my CD22, I opted to not install the shadow drive. The Garmin autopilot has very good review but the shadow drive, not so much. I mostly use my autopilot for longer run and try to break up sharp turn into a few smaller turn when following a route, that is mostly to...

Thanks Bob, I do have a multimeter and will monitor at some point, but as of now, my start batteries were just topped off with a smart charger before putting them back in the boat. I probably won’t get a full 10 amps regardless.

Yes, you are correct, the manual has the more standard 3 bank set up and this one for a single 12 volt bank and 2 X 12 volt in series for a 24 volt system. And as I said earlier, no connecting the 10 amps with the 5, but no mention of connecting both 5 together, like what you are doing in your...

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Thanks Colby, that’s what I was looking for. From the online owner manual, it mention not to connect #3 with 1 or 2 but no mention of connecting 1 and 2 together., but that’s kinda what the picture shows.

No heater on the batteries but yes on the low/high temps disconnect. the dc-dc charger will lower the output if it's getting too hot but does not monitor the batteries temperature. Is that what you’re asking?

Thanks, I’ll look into this. There is 2 set of indicator light so you might be right about the charger putting out 10 amps if only one of the 5 is use. Edit: A quick search show that I might be able to use the two 5 amps together for a 10 amps charge profile. but not the 10 with either of the...

Thanks Bob, I moved all my batteries and related switches and load protection inside the cabinets, that required retiring my flooded start batteries, my house bank was 2 AGM group 31 that I’m now using for my start. I needed to purchase 2 new batteries for the house bank and I got 2 LiTime 100 A...

I have a Guest 3 bank charger 5-5-10 that I assume is original equipment for my boat (2008) and does not support LiFepo4 battery charging. I upgraded my house bank to 2 Lifepo4 and start to AGM, I also have a DC-DC charger from each start battery charging the house bank. I do not feel the need...

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I installed one on my previous 22 cruiser and did not connect anything to either of the air inlet (combustion and cabin heater). It did warm ups and dry the cabin quite nicely. The 22 had a much tighter available space, and any hose coming down would have encroached in my storage room. In the...

I think you mention something similar earlier but what about running an oversized hose from a dry part of your bilge and connecting the combustion intake to that. That will move the vacuum from the cabin to the bilge. There is no heat going through that so any hose material will be fine up until...

Here some follow up on this project. I ended up placing the start batteries (2X AGM gr 31) and main switches under the aft settee of the dinette. I built a tray behind the drawer and off the floor as high as I could so I’m not really loosing any storage there and it's very easy access. The...

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