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lawrosa
Explorer
Mar 22, 2015

Charging with TV alternator... Mod with pics...

Finally finished my charging cable mod from TV alt/battery direct to camper batterys for dry camping... I did a small charge today and checked voltages only. My clamp on amp meter was not working.....
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pianotuna
Nomad III
Mar 27, 2015
Hi,

You are not idling a car. You are idling a truck. Big difference.

Four hours may get you from 50% to 90%. Most of the generator charging folks stop at 85%. Some of them (gasp) even end up using solar.

lawrosa wrote:
Also back to fuel usage, The Ohio Air Quality Development Authority found that the average idle car consumes about 0.156 gallons of gas per hour.

Thats .62 gallons in 4 hours...

@ 1.95 per gallon in NJ it will cost me 1.20 in fuel...

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