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  1. One good option to get out into the bay via murray beach boat ramp. You are then about a 10 minute run across to some king fish spots. Two good places for king fish ,middel ground and the torpedo tubes.
  2. Antony As you say I am pretty close now. I will not include a switch as there is one intergrated into the vsr for emergency starting. The vsr does the work for me this way.
  3. Guys this is what my set up will look like I will add in a couple of breakers on both sides of the VSR,
  4. Hi David I got the Maston VSR with override switch - so I can run both batteries together if required . http://www.batteriesdirect.com.au/shop/product/23314/ma98404.html I have a switch from the old set up but I want the VSR to do the work for me so I keep the starter battery as secondary battery runs the other stuff. I have an 80 AH battery with only a few electrics running of it - radio - sounder and occasionally the live bait tank when stationary.
  5. Antony and David (Ocean addiction) many thanks for your input - I think we are getting really close with your input. My main sticking point was the inclusion of a battery switch and the VSR until David clarified the purpose about the switch was to parallel the batteries if the start battery goes flat. Nice and clean the way this works by the way. My VSR has a switch built in for this so I feel I do not need the switch - as that is what I started with and I did not manage it very well and had two dead batteries at the ramp at 5.30am - not happy that day.
  6. Hi Guys - looking for some advice - I know its winter and the boating activities tend to diminish - hoping someone has time to help. thanks Robs rock
  7. Ok I have now replaced both batteries during the summer and it now time to change the old set up where I had a battery switch and was forever forgetting to switch it over so both would charge. DOH! I am about to install a Voltage Sensitive Relay (VRS)- and have a couple of questions for those marine sparkies or others who have gone down the same path . Working from the above diagram - do i need to put in circuit breakers on the positive leads from the VSR?? I have seen a number of set ups where there is a battery switch and a VSR in the same loop so doesn't the VSR do the same as the switch ?? or do i need both. I have a VSR that allows me to parallel both batteries in an emergency start situation. Thoughts welcome - pictures will also help me !
  8. Hey Brett I have been thinking about the same thing for my boat - seafarer 5mtr 2002 + 90 hp 2002 and my research has found that my current johno produces something like 100 hp at the prop as they were same block as 115 just a de tuned model.To go with the standard E-tec 90 would be a drop in performance and i need that for water sports etc The boat is rate to 90hp ( looked at getting it re rated - heaps of hassle to put a new 115 on the back.) I am looking at the E-tec HO 90 which is the de tuned 115 - not a cheap option but maintains performance as well as improved technology - reliability etc One of the issues with seafarers is putting too much weight in back
  9. I am a newbie to the forum having come from a forum that was more oriented to Vic Fishos so I thought I would reach out on a topic that no doubt has been well covered although I am looking for some specific advice. I will start with a bit of a description of the set-up of the boat which has been in place and been functioning ok since I have had the boat (2011). My rig is a seafarer Cuddy 2002 with a 90hp Johnson on the back.This was a replacement for a very similar set-up which was stolen a off my driveway in late 2010 ( two days before Xmas to be precise) I am looking to get some advice on the twin battery set-up. The current battery set-up uses the negative leads from both batteries and engine go into the battery isolator switch and both batteries are connected via the positives connected by a cross over lead - not sure if this ok as most oif what I have read is that it all needs to link back through the positive leads ?? I need to replace both batteries now as they are well past their used by dates and dead due to my mistake of leaving a few electronics on last week. I also want to install a VSR so my question is. Will the VSR work with this set up and do I simply intersect the linking positive leads with the VSR? . Need some thoughts here. regards Robsrock
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