<div dir="ltr"><div>Wow, she looks great! I know it has been a frustrating hall to get to this point. Hang in there. Keep dreaming about that first real dive! At some point it would be helpful to us that planning on converting to Lithium Batteries at some point , to hear your lessons learned on the batteries and BMS to keep us from running into some of the issues. I assume you have an main contactor that electrical isolates the main battery bank from all boat systems. With this contactor open, you still are getting draw offs?</div><div><br></div><div>Cliff</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 6:09 PM, Hugh Fulton via Personal_Submersibles <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" vlink="purple" link="blue"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">Hi Brian,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">No.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"><img width="513" height="200" src="cid:image001.png@01D0C213.54BEC520"></span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">This one.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">Hugh<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div style="border-width:1pt medium medium;border-style:solid none none;border-color:rgb(181,196,223) currentColor currentColor;padding:3pt 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"> Personal_Submersibles [mailto:<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles-bounces@psubs.org" target="_blank">personal_submersibles-bounces@psubs.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Brian Cox via Personal_Submersibles<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, 18 July 2015 4:58 p.m.<br><b>To:</b> Personal Submersibles General Discussion<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Hey Hugh<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">Is this the sub-con in the photos on the psubs web site?<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">Brian<br><br>--- <a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a> wrote:<br><br>From: Hugh Fulton via Personal_Submersibles <<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>><br>To: "'Personal Submersibles General Discussion'" <<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>><br>Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Hey Hugh<br>Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 10:03:25 +1200<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">About 98% but having a hell of a time with batteries and battery management systems. Trying to find draw-offs when not in use.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><p><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">Just had to pull out the port engine because of a battery failure. With various sparkies playing with it, it is not one persons responsibility to turn off the power and maintain the charge on the batteries with the result that we get battery meltdown. We have to have an idiot proof system. Gets a bit depressing.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><p><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">Hugh</span><u></u><u></u></p><p> <u></u><u></u></p><p><b><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"> Personal_Submersibles [<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles-bounces@psubs.org" target="_blank">mailto:personal_submersibles-bounces@psubs.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Brian Cox via Personal_Submersibles<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, 18 July 2015 9:45 a.m.<br><b>To:</b> PSubs <br><b>Subject:</b> [PSUBS-MAILIST] Hey Hugh</span><u></u><u></u></p><p> <u></u><u></u></p><p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">Hey Hugh,</span><u></u><u></u></p><p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"> Aren't you finished with that boat of yours yet ??</span><u></u><u></u></p><p> <u></u><u></u></p><p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">Brian </span>_______________________________________________ Personal_Submersibles mailing list <a href="http:///eonapps/ft/wm/page/compose?send_to=Personal_Submersibles%40psubs.org" target="_blank">Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org</a> <a href="http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles" target="_blank">http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles</a> <u></u><u></u></p></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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