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KEEPING TRACK OF THE AMPS

Modern boats are extremely power hungry and David Williams’s Bavaria 46 Galadriel is no exception. With four fridges, a microwave and all the usual twenty-first century instrumentation to look after, one of the first things David fitted was a battery monitor.

However, don’t think you only need to keep track of the amps if you have a sophisticated boat. It is perhaps even more important on a boat with minimal charging and storage capacity to know what is flowing in and out of the

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