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Hello,
We have a 2014 Hanse 415. We had 3 new 100Ah Battleborn Lithium batteries installed in May, along with 2 Victron DC to DC chargers. Worked beautifully all summer. We also have a bank of 3 solar panels and two mppt charge controllers.
We left for a weekend cruise on Friday and when leaving dock, we deployed the bow thruster, but the prop would not work, just a clicking noise from down in the salon. We assumed there might be a stick or something jamming the prop so we retracted it and carried on.
Here is a summary of what happened when we arrived at anchorage: - throttled down to anchor
- ran the windlass to drop anchor
- chart plotter shut down (i turned it back on, then it shut down again)
- set anchor and shut down engine.
- All 12 volt electrics turned off. (lights, fridge etc)
- Restarted engine no problem, but engine room fan did not come on during starting sequence.
- 12 volt panel showed house batteries at low voltage, then on its own, the voltage started to rise back up to full voltage and xantrex monitor showed batteries at 100% (this happened in about 10 seconds)
- panel reset and we turned lights and fridge back on.
- After 10 min, system shut down again, and restarted the same way after a few minutes and was stable for awhile.
- Turned on inverter to plug in an overnight appliance and system shut down again.
So, when the system was under a higher load than just lights and fridge (electric toilit, elec winch, etc, system shut down. When leaving the anchorage, the windlass would not lift the anchor with engine in low idle. Had to put in neutral and rev up to lift anchor. Returned home, batteries were 100%. When shore power was plugged in, and charger turned on, winch worked etc, but not with charger off.
I replaced the bow thruster fuse which looked discoloured but not broken. checked all the fuses. All look fine. A very reputable company did the Lithium install out of Vancouver. I will be contacting them this week but they don't travel to where I live.
Any advice is appreciated.
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