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monicarick01
Explorer
May 19, 2014

Can I charge batteries with a charger and generator?

I have an on-board generator and was wondering if it was possible to hook up a battery charger to the trailer, while the generator was running and use any "extra" power that the generator produced to...
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pianotuna
Nomad III
May 19, 2014
Hi

Welcome to the forums.

A built in generator usually powers the converter (which is more or less a fancy word for battery charger) in an RV.

You could add the 6 amp charger to increase the speed of recharging.

Do you know the make and model of the converter? And of the generator?

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