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tev123
Explorer
Mar 27, 2016

generator starter hooked up to coach or chassis battery?

Hello, In my 1990 Ford Falcon class-B, the generator's starter is connected to the coach battery. Advantages/disadvantage? I am wondering if this is the "normal" way of connecting the gen's start...
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darsben
Explorer II
Mar 28, 2016
Coach battery is perfect. If you run the coach out of enough power to start the genny do the following .
Start the coach. Wait a minute. Chassis starts to charge coach batteries and takes over running coach functions. Start genny. Turn off engine. Let genny charge batteries; I contend that if you run the battery down so far that it will not turn over the genny you are ruining your batteries for the coach

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