#Battle born batteries wiring diagram generator
Bad AC charger – ProMariner AC charger – excellent at cooking batteries! – this thing was a nightmare piece of equipment, and after I put voltage monitoring in place, routinely pumped 16-18v into my start and generator batteries.There was also more than 40′ of cable between the house and start bank by the time it went from the battery banks, to the combiner switch, and back. No charge control between house + start batteries – only a combiner switch – this meant remembering to combine the batteries when charging, and hopefully remembering to disconnect them when at anchor, or you deplete the starting batteries (which happened several times).
Charging is slow – normal with flooded batteries – the last 10% always takes forever, and the charge sources with this system are very small or inefficient.Overall capacity – while 420 usable amp hours is quite a bit, the amount of electrical stuff on the boat, even before I added electronics, meant that you needed to charge at least twice a day while at anchor.70 amp “newer” alternator and 40 amp original alternator (more than 20 years old) charging start banks.ProMariner 3 bank AC charger – charges generator and start batteries.Magnum 2800W inverter/charger – both at the dock via shore power and underway via the 8Kw Onan generator.Start batteries – 2x 8D flooded batteries – one for each engine.House battery bank – 6x 6 volt GC2 style flooded batteries – 280 amp hours each, for a total of 840 amp hours (only 420 usable at 50% DOD).The original system was pretty standard, and worked OK, except for overall capacity and charging issues.
? Original System Original 840 amp hour house bank using 6x 6v GC2 flooded batteries However, performance and other problems cropped up in the first few months of using it, so I moved this project earlier in the list and jumped in. Rendezvous came with a decent power system which I had hoped to use for a year before upgrading.
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