Funny day really... didn't feel like we achieved a lot... but I guess we did.
We started with checking out the refrigeration system, having got the pump primed and working yesterday. It appears the pump doesn't like to pump water back directly into the sea, but rather pump out into air. So after much working out we decided to pump into the cockpit drain rather than to a sea cock on the bottom of the boat. The working that way the refrigeration worked very well indeed and both the fridge and freezer cooled down to very cold. Made the water in the fridge nice to drink. This will be good for the summer.
Then we worked on getting the chain/deck wash pump working. That was a bit fiddly, but worked. Really we need a pressure tank or something to make it continuous, since the pump pressures the water in spurts. Need more research there.
Next we made the mounts for the new Paguro generator. We cut wood blocks and created the mounts ready for attaching to the platform where the old generator was placed.
Final job of the day was to remove the old wiring harness for the old generator and old diesel engine. In doing that we found something really weird. There was power to the old diesel engine control panel that didn't come from the domestic control panel nor did it come from the engine power. It appears to come from a point after the main domestic power isolator but before the breaker panel... which means there is no breaker on that circuit. That is the only wire in the loom I need to trace and work out what its doing.
Having removed all the wiring it would now be nice to remove the old fireproofing/sound insulation which looks really old and tired and replace it with something new and modern, so as well as having a new engine, the engine room looks nice and clean. The new motor has a much lower probability of fire hazard so we don't need so much fire proofing, and making soundproofing the already sound proofed generator should make it mega quiet.
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