{"id":423,"date":"2013-08-04T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ventulus.org\/?p=423"},"modified":"2014-05-16T12:39:14","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T11:39:14","slug":"foiled-weekend-sailing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ventulus.org\/?p=423","title":{"rendered":"Foiled weekend sailing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_418\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-418\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ventulus.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0329s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-418\" alt=\"The culprit\" src=\"http:\/\/ventulus.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0329s.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ventulus.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0329s.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ventulus.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0329s-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-418\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The culprit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Our start battery worked flawlessly, during our week-long summer cruise. Two weeks later, when I pressed the start button there was a loud click followed by silence. Only after disassembling the engines electronics (or more accurately electromechanics), did I think of checking the battery.<\/p>\n<p>The battery was connected to a charger, and appeared to be receiving maintenance charge. However, the voltage dropped, to 4 volt when attempting to start. In the two weeks the battery was left idle, but charging, it had developed a major internal resistance. I am guessing it is a dried out cell. <em>&#8216;Maintenance free&#8217;<\/em> should read &#8216;<em>can-not-be-maintained&#8217;<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our start battery worked flawlessly, during our week-long summer cruise. Two weeks later, when I pressed the start button there was a loud click followed by silence. Only after disassembling the engines electronics (or more accurately electromechanics), did I think of checking the battery. The battery was connected to a charger, and appeared to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ventulus.org\/?p=423\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Foiled weekend sailing<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,5],"tags":[26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ventulus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ventulus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ventulus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ventulus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ventulus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ventulus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"https:\/\/ventulus.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ventulus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ventulus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ventulus.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}