Thanks for this Chuck,
What you say makes sense. I shall thus retain the switch.

By the way, do you know how "Charles" became "Chuck"? We have always
wondered but nobody has been able to explain so far - a ridiculous
query I know, but somethings just irk you.
cheers
Peter

Thanks for the clarification, Peter. It
really doesn't change anything though.
The point is that the more often you
switch a breaker on or off, the greater
the chance of failure. If you do it once
a week, the breaker may outlive your
boat. If you do it several times a day,
then depending on the breaker design and
a whole lot of other stuff, it may fail
before your boat does. Switches, on the
other hand, will usually sustain many
more operation cycles before failure.

Keep in mind that circuit breaker
deterioration and/or failure may not
even be evident in its use as a switch!
For all anyone knows, half the breakers
now in boats may not function in
accordance with their original
specifications. Who ever tests them?

For anything more specific, I think you
might want to consult Blue Sea.

In the end, it is all economics, broadly
defined.

Chuck

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On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:48:50 +0000, Larry wrote:

Peter Hendra wrote in
:

Question: Is it good practice to use it as a switch?

cheers
Peter Hendra



Yeah, it's ok. You won't own it long enough to wear it out. All the
sailboats I sail on use all the breakers as switches, anyways. They seem
fine. Make sure you have 125A WIRES to go with it....(c;

Larry
Thanks again Larry and others.

I shall certainly miss having instant access to expertise such as
yours when i set off again - No, I'm not being patronising. I only
wish it was available when i built my boat.

regards
Peter

Peter Hendra wrote:
Thanks for this Chuck,
What you say makes sense. I shall thus retain the switch.

By the way, do you know how "Charles" became "Chuck"? We have always
wondered but nobody has been able to explain so far - a ridiculous
query I know, but somethings just irk you.
cheers
Peter

google = name chuck origin

http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/1/Chuck

The boy's name Chuck \ch(u)-ck\. Pet form of Charles (Old German) "free
man". Originally a nickname from a term for endearment (from Middle
English "chukken", meaning "to chuck"). Chuck has 1 variant form: Chuckie.

Jack

Peter Hendra wrote in
:

I shall certainly miss having instant access to expertise such as
yours when i set off again - No, I'm not being patronising. I only
wish it was available when i built my boat.

r

Too bad for both of us. I've been to Oz, but never to NZ or Tasmania. I'd
probably be hard to get rid of and they'd have to deport me....

Larry
--

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:15:20 +0000, Larry wrote:

Peter Hendra wrote in
:

I shall certainly miss having instant access to expertise such as
yours when i set off again - No, I'm not being patronising. I only
wish it was available when i built my boat.

r

Too bad for both of us. I've been to Oz, but never to NZ or Tasmania. I'd
probably be hard to get rid of and they'd have to deport me....

Larry

Yes, but you'd have to learn English and to spell correctly, such as
"programme" and "colour" as well as learning the sensible and easier
metric system. But, you would get more litres in your gallon. Bloody
Gallons! I normally use about 2 x 5 litre cans of antifouling. Have to
do a calculation to order the stuff here in Trinidad and to ascertain
the coverage. Ordered a backstay with the eye to eye measurement in
sensible millimetres - don't have a tape with feet and inches - man
had to unroll his tape, get me to mark the metric length and transpose
it to the other side in imperial. Ridiculous system of measurement.

If you like to make things difficult, why don't you use cubits as a
measure of length - these are of differing lengths - The Egyptian
cubit, the royal cubit, the Assyrian cubit, the Babylonian cubit and
so on.

cheers
Peter

Peter Hendra wrote in
:

Yes, but you'd have to learn English and to spell correctly, such as
"programme" and "colour" as well as learning the sensible and easier
metric system. But, you would get more litres in your gallon. Bloody
Gallons!

I just bought four new tyres for my lorry. Is that OK?

I had to learn proper English back when I drove Morris Minors in the 60's.
One was a drophead coupe with a pointy bonnet and rounded boot that looked
like something out of the 1930's. Morris Minor 1000s were great motorcars.

Larry
--
America will convert to litres, some day. Instead of paying $3/gallon for
petrol, almost overnight, it will be $3/litre for petrol. Just watch it
happen....

Be glad he had your do that exercise with the metric tape. That's much safer than counting on
someone who doesn't do it regulary to do the math right.


"Peter Hendra" wrote in message ...
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:15:20 +0000, Larry wrote:

Peter Hendra wrote in
m:

I shall certainly miss having instant access to expertise such as
yours when i set off again - No, I'm not being patronising. I only
wish it was available when i built my boat.

r

Too bad for both of us. I've been to Oz, but never to NZ or Tasmania. I'd
probably be hard to get rid of and they'd have to deport me....

Larry

Yes, but you'd have to learn English and to spell correctly, such as
"programme" and "colour" as well as learning the sensible and easier
metric system. But, you would get more litres in your gallon. Bloody
Gallons! I normally use about 2 x 5 litre cans of antifouling. Have to
do a calculation to order the stuff here in Trinidad and to ascertain
the coverage. Ordered a backstay with the eye to eye measurement in
sensible millimetres - don't have a tape with feet and inches - man
had to unroll his tape, get me to mark the metric length and transpose
it to the other side in imperial. Ridiculous system of measurement.

If you like to make things difficult, why don't you use cubits as a
measure of length - these are of differing lengths - The Egyptian
cubit, the royal cubit, the Assyrian cubit, the Babylonian cubit and
so on.

cheers
Peter

On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 18:30:12 +0000, Larry wrote:

Peter Hendra wrote in
:

Yes, but you'd have to learn English and to spell correctly, such as
"programme" and "colour" as well as learning the sensible and easier
metric system. But, you would get more litres in your gallon. Bloody
Gallons!

I just bought four new tyres for my lorry. Is that OK?

I had to learn proper English back when I drove Morris Minors in the 60's.
One was a drophead coupe with a pointy bonnet and rounded boot that looked
like something out of the 1930's. Morris Minor 1000s were great motorcars.

Larry

Sorry Larry,
Nice try but I'm afraid that we don 't have any "lorries" - the
English have those. We only have "trucks".

On topic (yes, I know - for once); I bought 3 cans/tins (with the self
sealing mechanism that was invented by a NEW ZEALAND Post Office clerk
- pronounced correctly as Cl- Ar-k, not "Clurk" while the USA was
still doing its splendid isolation thing in the 1890s.

The Trinidad company gave me the price in gallons, the coverage in
gallons and the antifouling paint in gallons. I calculated and
estimated 3 gallons. I received 3 "1 gallon" cans with the advice that
they contained " a bit more than a gallon" - actually 5 litres - and
priced accordingly but their rate was "per gallon - why didn't they
say so in the first place?

Larry, even with your appalling ability in both the spoken and written
English language, you would be very welcome in my country. You are the
type of American we like as opposed to the monied ones (not at all
sour grapes) who arrive to live due to the lifestyle etc and then set
about trying to change it to the busy lifestyle they "escaped" (to use
their word) from. "You Kiwis shoiuld do things like we do in the US of
A" and buying beach and lakeside properties and trying to restrict
public access despite the "Queen's chain".

You'd like it down there.

The only thing you may miss is that neither you nor your offspring
will be likely to be able to die in a patriotic fashion for your
country in the near future at least. We buy our oil in the norm al
manner without the loss of our lower socioeconomic group's lives.

cheers
peter

On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 14:26:02 -0700, "Chuck Tribolet"
wrote:

Be glad he had your do that exercise with the metric tape. That's much safer than counting on
someone who doesn't do it regulary to do the math right.

Yes, you are quite right but I still can't understand the benefits of
staying with the old imperial system.

Probably better than the Australian farmers' method of counting sheep
and cattle (one, anudderone, anudderone, annudderone and so on) but so
much harder to calculate with.

cheers
Peter Hendra

Peter said:
Larry, even with your appalling ability in both the spoken and written
English language, you would be very welcome in my country. You are the
type of American we like as opposed to the monied ones (not at all
sour grapes) who arrive to live due to the lifestyle etc and then set
about trying to change it to the busy lifestyle they "escaped" (to use
their word) from. "You Kiwis shoiuld do things like we do in the US of
A" and buying beach and lakeside properties and trying to restrict
public access despite the "Queen's chain".

We have the same thing here in South Carolina. Our sleepy little laid back
town has been invaded bny northerners that love the easy living and then get
bored and try to change everything to the way it was up north. If they were
so in love with that, why don't they go back there and leave us alone.
dammyankees....... I admit that I am a transplant, Cape Cod are expat, but
first arrived here 50 years ago and returned to settle in retirement.

Leanne