Charging batteries with the engine
Hi all. I have a 2011 triple e senator 25d. Great motor home. E450 v10. Just curious, what is the output of the alternator vs the standard converter? It seems to charge the house batteries...
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Desert Captain wrote:
The occasional use I described does no harm and gives the owners of gassers a valuable option, one that is not open to the folks with the popular Mercedes {or other similar diesels}. It was hardly "overstated" and is in fact correct.
Re-read my post and you will see that in the last 4.5 years I have had the need to use this technique twice. Nowhere did I recommend making this a regular event but merely pointed out this valuable option. Also as noted above emergency vehicles {often large gassers, typically V-10's} routinely sit idling for hours.
D.C. .... well put!
We used our RV's V10 alternator for drycamp battery charging this past January in Quartzsite. I idled the engine for about an hour for a fast partial charge of our AGM batteries. We could have used the Onan or Honda, but I was both lazy and wanted complete quietness so I just fired up the V10 and let it idle.
Once in the Texas Panhandle in August we idled the V10 for awhile so we could run both the roof top A/C via the Onan and the dash air for a fast cool-down in extreme heat.
This is a very nice additional choice for V10 motorhome owners. :C
