Charging Extravaganza

On Saturday my father Phil, Jan and I set about installing the solar panels and wind generator.
I wanted each of these components to be easily removable for when NINJOD is not participating in long offshore events.
The wind generator mount can be fairly simply and quickly removed and the cabling is split at deck level with a fairly heavy duty deck plug/socket combination. The solar panels proved a tad trickier as they are mounted onto either deck at the stern of the yacht. To achieve this expensive flush fixings with an internal M5 thread were bonded into the deck, 1 for each corner of each panel. When the bonding agent hardened the panels were screwed into the fixings. Each panels cabling is again split at deck level with a heavy duty plug/socket combo.
Switch on was very impressive. The wind generator spun into action fairly quickly and once we had worked out the different switch positions (brake, charge and something else) we saw power pumping into the batteries. The Morningstar MPPT solar regulator and array just worked,even in low light towards the end of the Saturday the solar array was producing 13.5 volts. When we returned on Sunday in glorious sunshine the batteries were fully charged and the array was producing over 17 volts.