Intellitec Bi-Directional Isolator fried
After noticing that my house batteries were not charging while driving I did some checks and found both the Intellitec controller and Trombetta relay that make up my battery isolator were fried. I op...
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enblethen wrote:
The relay, is it mounted on the circuit board as a control relay? These may be rated only .5 to 5 amps.
The large relay(some call it a solenoid) would be rated for 100 amps.
The controller has a 12V output that was factory wired to the solenoid on the large relay. That is the one that draws about 1.8 amps and was making the controller heat up. I redirected the output from the controller circuit board to a smaller relay that in turn now drives the big relay.
