Maybe you are looking to not having to run your generators for 24h?
Or maybe you are just looking to prolong the autonomy of your on-board battery bank?
Or would you like to propel your yacht electrically?
Invite Phoenix One for a free onboard survey.
We will come on board and have a talk with the captain, engineer or ETO to get an overall idea of how the yacht is using its available power onboard. What are you happy with? What are you not happy with? Where could be points of improvement?
We will have a look at your power distribution. What does your AC grid look like? What does your DC grid look like? How are they connected? How is power being converted from one to the other?
What is powering your yacht? Does your yacht live off a battery bank or do you constantly having to run a generator?
What are the yachts high power consumers? For instance, the galley, warm water boilers and big hydraulic pumps and how often do they come on?
How is your energy being managed and monitored at the moment? Is it integrated with the alarm system or any other system? Are you happy with it or is it horribly outdated?
Based on our findings, we will come with a proposal to retrofit what you have on board to a new technologically up to date system meeting your wishes.
For example, in the case of SY Acaia:
On Acaia we have replaced the traditional lead acid battery bank for a much energy denser bank made out of 14x LiFePO4 (or LFP) batteries. This type of Lithium battery shows the best compromise between energy density and safety.
Dropping the battery banks weight from 1500kg to 560kg and at the same time increasing its storage from about 20 to 80 kWh turned out to be a massive improvement on both weight and stored energy.
Now Acaia can enjoy silence like never before, have dinner or a swim without generator noise nor fumes. Have a peaceful sleep all night with the air conditioning on, not bothered by a generator.
The monitoring and control system can be set to top up the battery bank during suitable hours when they are less disturbing.
In the case of SY Galaxy:
This 23m aluminium ketch from 1979 needed to be retrofitted in a way to have ZERO emission. Two battery banks of 16 batteries each, using the same safe LFP batteries, were fitted. The old 800kg Volvo Penta diesel was removed and replaced with a more powerful 50kg electric motor, reduction gear and thrust bearing assembly. The yacht can now be propelled for hours in a row at a cruising speed of 7 knots. And when under sail, the free spinning propellor will keep the batteries topped up.