All good info, Quent. Thanks. It does get confusing when so many knowledgeable people with real, hands-on experience produce so many recommendations that re-prioritize, contradict, confound and otherwise differ so widely. I had a single-belt-driven Balmar 100- or 110-amp alternator powered by a small Yanmar engine on my last cruising boat and never had a belt so much as slip in 3,600 engine hours over 6 years and 30,000-odd miles. No broken belts, no crankshaft issues, no overloads or underloads, no battery failures – nothing like that. Maybe I was just lucky.
Your 200-amps worth of alternators is the biggest load I’ve heard of on a cruising boat in our size range. Enviable, to be sure, but perhaps that had something to do with frying the Xantrex regulators. Or maybe not. Electricity is still a supernatural phenomenon to me.
Tor
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