Installing a Balmar External Voltage Regulator

Voltage Regulator

While I don’t recommend intentionally frying your alternator, frying ours last summer pushed this project to the top of our to-do list and I’m glad it did.  We spent a lot of money on our Battle Born LiFePO4 batteries and with a new alternator and external voltage regulator I feel more at ease that the […]

New Balmar Alternator

Balmar Alternator

Our boat came with an internally regulated, Leece-Neville 105 amp alternator.  It couldn’t keep up with the high charge acceptance rate of our new 500 Ah LiFePo battery bank; it worked too hard and got too hot and finally quit on us.  Plus, it looked like it had been sprayed with salt water at one time. […]