Topic: electrical

This is the calculator suite I use to model solar-electric performance on Moonshot, a 53-foot motoryacht carrying about 6.6 kW of solar.

It models four things: deck solar capacity, terminal speed, daily solar range, and voltage sag.

The questions…

Boat wiring has a way of humbling even the most intellectual among us.

You have heard the term spaghetti code. That is still tidy compared to forty-year-old wiring with no labels, no obvious logic, and no guarantee the last owner believed in color…