Excess Genny use
This is probably a rant.. with a question... what would you do, and how would you take it if someone did it to you? Background.. *Campers in a 30' pull behind moved in at the next pad. Its a s...
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mlts22 wrote:Chandalen wrote:
As mentioned. Charging with an idling car (via the trailer plug) is a waste of gas. Your getting 3-5 amps at best. With jumper cables it's better but....
Realistically, the only way I see getting high amperage from a vehicle to the RV would be to have a secondary alternator which puts out 120 volts that would plug into the electrical input of the rig, or a 12 volt inverter coupled with a PSW alternator. Trying to run 12 volts even from an alternator would require that are very fat.
our Ford Dualie had twin alternators. 145amp each. It had heavy relays and heavy wires and a 20amp cartridge type fuse back to our fifth wheel.
Where they worked on it they tried to raise the front of the fifth wheel to hook it up to the truck, wit a weak batter and connectd it up tto the truck and two huge truck batteries. Fried the fuse, the only only one they didn't put in the kit under the hood. Took an hour to buy two more. The truck charged it up in a bout 15 minutes. I put a second battery box and batter and cables and vent tube, supplied by Holiday Rambler for free. Never had that happen again. Should have installed four batteries perhaps.
