Battery Isolator Not Working
I just installed a new pair of 6V batteries and rewired everything pretty much the same way, except for wiring them in series. Everything's working great except for the isolator that is supposed to gi...
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I went to the site and I like their sense of humor. About the only negative I see is that the solenoid is not bi-directional. It will trigger only from the engine side. If you charge the house batteries with a converter the engine starting battery is left out in the cold no matter what the voltage. The price is good if the unit is durable.
In the early nineties, chatted with Lisle Bruney, Sure-Power's chief engineer about the design of Sure-Power's original single-direction separator. Sure enough a month or so later a bi-directional separator was introduced. I really like the total encapsulation of these produces. And the only wire needed is the one from the .250" fast-on connection to chassis negative. This separator WILL carry the current on a gasoline engine starter motor to jump start the engine from the house battery. But that takes a second wire to a pushbutton switch.
The downside to the Sure-Power 200-amp separator is the price, thirty-some-odd-dollars more. I also love Sure-Power's use of the Motorola MR-2535 avalanche diode which clamps transient voltage spikes whether the separator is working or not. Lisle sent me a big box of MR2535's as a reward, someone cut the leads too short so they were scrap.
In the early nineties, chatted with Lisle Bruney, Sure-Power's chief engineer about the design of Sure-Power's original single-direction separator. Sure enough a month or so later a bi-directional separator was introduced. I really like the total encapsulation of these produces. And the only wire needed is the one from the .250" fast-on connection to chassis negative. This separator WILL carry the current on a gasoline engine starter motor to jump start the engine from the house battery. But that takes a second wire to a pushbutton switch.
The downside to the Sure-Power 200-amp separator is the price, thirty-some-odd-dollars more. I also love Sure-Power's use of the Motorola MR-2535 avalanche diode which clamps transient voltage spikes whether the separator is working or not. Lisle sent me a big box of MR2535's as a reward, someone cut the leads too short so they were scrap.
