Charger

The photo is of our "Mastervolt Mass 12/60" regulator. It will supply a whopping 60 amps of current to our house batteries using "any" input voltage. It also has a battery temperature sensor to guard against overheating of the gel batteries.

Tommo has hard wired it to our DC system. Today Arnold and I will hard wire the AC side to take power from the boat's AC system. When in Australia and NZ we will supply the boat with 240V AC power and the charger will automatically do its work. When in the USA we will use a plug converter so that we can supply the boat with 110V AC power. The charger will use this voltage to do its work and we should be able to then use the boat's GPO's (i.e. wall plugs) to charge our laptops and other 12V equipment.

The unit is less that 12 months old and came off of a boat where two of these units are being replaced by one much bigger one. Bob told us that $750 at about half of its purchase price was a fair amount to pay. After that price was agreed with the vendor Bob checked up and saw that these units are now selling for over $2500. ... We've gotta win a few.