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blueh20
Oct 19, 2018Explorer
thanks for the great responses folks....
I will explain a little better.
1: The cable goes from the starter battery directly back to the house battery through the charging relay, it DOES NOT CONNECT TO THE STARTER, now this may or may not make a difference in your responses and I am not knowledgeable enough to know.
2:The cable hooks up to a Blue Sea automatic charging relay, then connects to the house battery,I was told(thats why im checking here)that the auto relay could tell if there was a short and auto shut down power going from the house batt to the start batt?
A; anyone familiar with this?
3: the previous owner said he set it up this way in case I left the headlights on and drained the starter battery that the house battery, through the charging relay would start the vehicle?
B: it seems that if I put a breaker up at the starter battery I would negate this feature(even though I was told) that by manually turning the dial on the charging relay the house battery would send enough power to the starter battery, after 15minutes or so, then turn the relay off i would probably be able to start the vehicle?
thanks for your responses
I will explain a little better.
1: The cable goes from the starter battery directly back to the house battery through the charging relay, it DOES NOT CONNECT TO THE STARTER, now this may or may not make a difference in your responses and I am not knowledgeable enough to know.
2:The cable hooks up to a Blue Sea automatic charging relay, then connects to the house battery,I was told(thats why im checking here)that the auto relay could tell if there was a short and auto shut down power going from the house batt to the start batt?
A; anyone familiar with this?
3: the previous owner said he set it up this way in case I left the headlights on and drained the starter battery that the house battery, through the charging relay would start the vehicle?
B: it seems that if I put a breaker up at the starter battery I would negate this feature(even though I was told) that by manually turning the dial on the charging relay the house battery would send enough power to the starter battery, after 15minutes or so, then turn the relay off i would probably be able to start the vehicle?
thanks for your responses
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