Near 20yr old vehicle.. It IS living on "borrowed time"..
Your living on luck not economy..
When it is you only ride out of the woods and that old you might be really wishing that you had listened to the advice given..
There is times and places for being cheap.. Hiking out of the woods is not one of those places to be cheap.
Nope. My truck has been highly maintained and is in impeccable condition.
So per your advice my only option is to get a gen and upgrade my convertor to a 3 stage. or a portable charger?
Again if I wanted that I would not have posted here about my project. Dont you think I researched this already before I took the time to install my mod?
I dont want to sit in nature and listen to a gen run for 10 hours trying to charge my batterys back up. I have no use for high draw appliances like I was home. No toster, coffee pot, microwave, a/c etc.
What I have is a box fan 1.0 amps if needed to keep cool in camper, tv for kids 1.7 amps, and all led lights with a .07 amp draw each. Propane stove,oven and fridge.
Water pump sparingly. and heat maybe to take chill off before bed...
I have 2- 75 ah battery's. So thats 150 ah... minus 1/2 is 75 ah till 50% soc.
So if I can dump 40 amps in from my alt I can recharge in 2 hours or so. So I will run my truck 2 hours maybe every 3rd day..
And at less then .5gph for my V6 thats less then 1 gallon of fuel.. $1.95 here in NJ
Again 105 amp alt running at 1/2 capacity...
Tell me if anyone can, what your amp draw is from your alternator with lights on, blower fan or a/c and maybe heated seats on if equiped, wipers and rear defogger on. Typical what may happen on a rainy night where the windows fog up. Sitting idle in bad traffic. And post the amp capacity of your alternator.
I myself will be charging my batterys with no accesories on...LOL as the truck dont have any except the basics.
When I get the amp readings from my recharge test this weekend then we will see the actuals..
Ill also test the amps the alt puts out just to keep the truck running...
Thank you to all the few that supported me so far. For those interested I will post back during the upcoming weekend.
