BATTERY MANAGEMENT & 240 V INVERTERS

Battery management

All Whitsunday Escape bareboats rely on a battery bank to run the onboard appliances, such as refrigerators, lights, water pumps, toilets, televisions and anchor winches. The battery banks are only large enough to keep the average boat running without recharging for about 12 hours. The skipper of the boat needs to monitor the batteries and recharge them as needed. The batteries can be recharged depending on the boat, by the alternators on the engines, solar panels, a generator and a battery charger when plugged into shore power. In most cases you will need to run the boats motor or generator at least 1.5 hours a time, at two intervals a day for a total of 3 hours.

240 V Invertors

All Whitsunday Escape bareboats have 240v 300W inverters as standard equipment.

Inverters are useful if you do not have a 12 V plug for your phone charger or need to charge camera batteries or laptops.  The standard size, 300 W inverter will supply enough power to run a small television and DVD player at the same time. No inverters on any of the boats can power a 240 V hair dryer. Leave it behind. Send the good looking crew to the fore-deck for 10 minutes and the sea breeze will take care of her hair. Laptops although they draw very little power may not work on the inverters. The electrical signal to start up the inverter may not be sufficient and the sine-wave may not be correct, check the operation before you depart the marina or bring an inverter with you that is compatible with your laptop.