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In this video Pete and I go through the battery banks on his Halvorsen 36 to understand how they are wired together and what all the switches do. Having this understanding will mean that the switches are used correctly and that future diagnosis will be much easier.

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Footnote A: The starboard starting battery was flat as the emergency parallel switch was left on an it connects directly to that battery. If you the port and startboard starting batteries had also been paralleled they both would have been drained by house devices.

Footnote B: This is the battery that the emergency parallel switch connects to on the house bank side. Without this battery in place there is no connection between the starting and house banks. The entire house bank is currently unswitched.

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