I slip on my galoshes and wade deep deep deep into battery issues. OPs sometimes complain they don't want to learn the technical side.So maybe it would be best to simply stick to reporting your favorite brand of charger to be used with a generator, how many hours of runtime to recharge his bank and then list the downsides (a plus versus minus list)There will be casualties. Like a driver who insists on eating a sandwich while texting. They choose to have a lifetime of 2-year chew & spit batteries.A person would think I immerse myself in battery care insanity with my bank...Is this over indulgence?24 cells at 24.2 voltsStart generator let it warm up.Twist an Intermatic timer knob to say 4.5 hoursWhen I hear the generator unload at 4.5 hours I stroll up the hill and shut off the engine.Every week I take a hydrometer reading of the weak sister cell.

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:"I slip on my galoshes......."MEX - maybe you better define "galoshes" for the younger generators -....er- generation!:B

"....they slip on their dirtiest clean flip-flops, and go ask someone at Auto Zone"

I was headed south on Mex 5 at buttonwillow when I decided to get gas. My '67 caddy had the 429 inch engine with a 10MT starter and a 17 plate group 27 battery.These were the days of high compression engines and heat soaked starter motors. The fuel tank held 27 gallons.Sure as hell the starter fell flat on it's face and I prepared to wait 10 minutes of so to restart. Being the 10MT was brand new Delco and installed around a month earlier I wasn' the least perturbed. I upgraded to 1 AWG battery cables then.Out from the shadows of a service bay ran a pineapple skin youth holding a cheese grater type battery tester. He clamped in onto the battery terminals then flipped the toggle switch."Yep it's your alternator and I happen to have one! Lemme go see how much for labor".I'll let you fill in the blanks.

MEXICOWANDERER wrote:OPs sometimes complain they don't want to learn the technical side.I realize that responding to what appears to be another rant is not productive, but, - it is "can't learn", not "don't want to". Last time I checked, no chapters of physics were mandatory in US and Canadian high schools. You can't learn without understanding the basics first.(now I recall my answer to a similar rant several months ago on how to ask questions: OPs don't know how to properly ask because they don't know, period).

A Tip For Folks Who Are Trying To Help Others With Batteries

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shum02
Explorer
May 01, 2019
JaxDad wrote:
MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
My '67 caddy had the 429 inch engine with a 10MT starter and a 17 plate group 27 battery.

These were the days of high compression engines and heat soaked starter motors. The fuel tank held 27 gallons.

And how many feet did a carbi-tooted 429 in a land yacht go on 27 gallons?

If he was lucky and kept his foot out of it 250 miles ......maybe.
JaxDad
Explorer III
May 01, 2019
MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
My '67 caddy had the 429 inch engine with a 10MT starter and a 17 plate group 27 battery.

These were the days of high compression engines and heat soaked starter motors. The fuel tank held 27 gallons.

And how many feet did a carbi-tooted 429 in a land yacht go on 27 gallons?
MEXICOWANDERER
Explorer
Apr 30, 2019
I

"Didn't Know"

at age 4, but somehow I struggled my way. Teaching classes aboard a sailboat I learned that an overwhelming percentage of don't wanna know, is a conscious decision. I could learn to write code but I don't wanna. CAN'T is a cop-out. It belittles the individual.
Almot
Explorer III
Apr 30, 2019
MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
OPs sometimes complain they don't want to learn the technical side.

I realize that responding to what appears to be another rant is not productive, but, - it is "can't learn", not "don't want to". Last time I checked, no chapters of physics were mandatory in US and Canadian high schools. You can't learn without understanding the basics first.

(now I recall my answer to a similar rant several months ago on how to ask questions: OPs don't know how to properly ask because they don't know, period).
MEXICOWANDERER
Explorer
Apr 30, 2019
I was headed south on Mex 5 at buttonwillow when I decided to get gas. My '67 caddy had the 429 inch engine with a 10MT starter and a 17 plate group 27 battery.

These were the days of high compression engines and heat soaked starter motors. The fuel tank held 27 gallons.

Sure as hell the starter fell flat on it's face and I prepared to wait 10 minutes of so to restart. Being the 10MT was brand new Delco and installed around a month earlier I wasn' the least perturbed. I upgraded to 1 AWG battery cables then.

Out from the shadows of a service bay ran a pineapple skin youth holding a cheese grater type battery tester. He clamped in onto the battery terminals then flipped the toggle switch.

"Yep it's your alternator and I happen to have one! Lemme go see how much for labor".

I'll let you fill in the blanks.
Cloud_Dancer
Explorer II
Apr 30, 2019
"....they slip on their dirtiest clean flip-flops, and go ask someone at Auto Zone"
ol_Bombero-JC
Explorer
Apr 30, 2019
dbl post
ol_Bombero-JC
Explorer
Apr 30, 2019
MEXICOWANDERER wrote:

"I slip on my galoshes......."

MEX - maybe you better define "galoshes" for the younger generators -
....er- generation!

:B

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