Charging Strategy, 1994 RoadTrek
Hi all, I've been diving back into how to upgrade my battery system in my class B and was hoping someone here could sanity check me. I have a small 100AH 12V coach battery and I'm upgrading to a pai...
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Sounds like you have it figured out.
I have never used an inverter charger combo unit, I only use a discrete converter and a cigar lighter plug in inverter.
The advantage with those inverter charger units is their high charging current ability.
I'm not sure of the ventilation and clearance requirements for those but I'm sure it says in the data paper.
Good luck with the project, I'm interested to see how it goes!
Also, here are some images of my install. One shows the under the hood solenoid, and you can almost see the fuse block at the top hidden by the other wires.
The other pic is of my bus bar setup in the electrical compartment behind my ac/dc fuse panel. Having bus bars really makes adding high current devices or add ons easy, because that way there is not a million things attached to the battery terminals. There are only two cables connecting to my batteries, in a compartment to the left you cant see in the pic. 2 GC2 batteries. The silver box is my converter. I would also recommend adding a main battery terminal type fuse so that a fault before the fuse panel, or anywhere unexpected is not going to cause a fire.
I have never used an inverter charger combo unit, I only use a discrete converter and a cigar lighter plug in inverter.
The advantage with those inverter charger units is their high charging current ability.
I'm not sure of the ventilation and clearance requirements for those but I'm sure it says in the data paper.
Good luck with the project, I'm interested to see how it goes!
Also, here are some images of my install. One shows the under the hood solenoid, and you can almost see the fuse block at the top hidden by the other wires.
The other pic is of my bus bar setup in the electrical compartment behind my ac/dc fuse panel. Having bus bars really makes adding high current devices or add ons easy, because that way there is not a million things attached to the battery terminals. There are only two cables connecting to my batteries, in a compartment to the left you cant see in the pic. 2 GC2 batteries. The silver box is my converter. I would also recommend adding a main battery terminal type fuse so that a fault before the fuse panel, or anywhere unexpected is not going to cause a fire.
