Boatowner's mechanical and electrical manual : how to maintain, repair, and improve your boat's essential system /

Calder, Nigel

Boatowner's mechanical and electrical manual : how to maintain, repair, and improve your boat's essential system / Nigel Calder - 4th edition - London : Adlard Coles Nautical - xvi, 944 p. : ill. ; 29 cm

Chapter 1. Establishing a balanced battery-powered electrical system

Chapter 2. Efficient cost-effective electrical systems for energy intensive boats

Chapter 3. Maintaining and troubleshooting a battery-powered electrical system

Chapter 4. Understanding and troubleshooting electrical circuits

Chapter 5. Corrosion, bonding, lightning, and grounding

Chapter 6. Battery chargers, inverters, wind and water generators and solar panels

Chapter 7. AC generators, dc generators, electric motors(AC and DC), and electrical lights

Chapter 8. Marine electronics: Antennas and radio grounds, electromagnetic and radio frequency interference, and saving soaked equipment

Chapter 9. Diesel engines: operation and maintenance, troubleshooting and winter layup

Chapter 10. Forum transmission to propeller

Chapter 11. Refrigeration and air-conditioning

Chapter 12. Tanks, plumbing, toilets, through-hull-fittings and sealants

Chapter 13. Pumps and watermarks

Chapter 14. Steering systems, autopilots, and wind vanes

Chapter 15. Stoves, Cabin heaters, gas-powered water lanterns

Chapter 16. Blocks, Winches windlasses and bow thrusters

Chapter 17. Spars, standing rigging, and roller reefing


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Marine Engineering

REF 623.8500288 / CAL