Charge Batteries by Idling Tow Vehicle?
This may be a dumb question, but since every tow vehicle has a generator which is connected to the batteries and they charge while driving, how about hooking up and charging at the campsite while idli...
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I didn't read all 42 posts. Sorry if i cover same ground.
Our F350 had two alternators and two large batteries.
It had a 20 map fuse to connector to Fifth Wheel.
We charged the batteries, it originally only came with one, in our fifth wheel, by idling the engine in the pick up.
It had been at service for some reair, for a looong time.
They let the batteries run down. When we tried to raise the front to hook it to he truck of course it wouldn't go. They hooked up the harness and it went a bit before it blew the 20 amp fuse. Took a while to find an auto parts store, with that particular fuse. A under hood box had every other fuse you could thing of though. Replaced fuse let it idle for twenty or thirty minutes disconnected the lug an jacked it right up.
The house battery should charge from your pickup.
When we installed the plug on the pickup we bought a heavier unit and with ten gauge wiring and soldered the connections.
A good bit of current goes from vehicle to house battery.
used dialetric compound on pins of connector too.
use a good connector that is weather tight when hooked up.
Our F350 had two alternators and two large batteries.
It had a 20 map fuse to connector to Fifth Wheel.
We charged the batteries, it originally only came with one, in our fifth wheel, by idling the engine in the pick up.
It had been at service for some reair, for a looong time.
They let the batteries run down. When we tried to raise the front to hook it to he truck of course it wouldn't go. They hooked up the harness and it went a bit before it blew the 20 amp fuse. Took a while to find an auto parts store, with that particular fuse. A under hood box had every other fuse you could thing of though. Replaced fuse let it idle for twenty or thirty minutes disconnected the lug an jacked it right up.
The house battery should charge from your pickup.
When we installed the plug on the pickup we bought a heavier unit and with ten gauge wiring and soldered the connections.
A good bit of current goes from vehicle to house battery.
used dialetric compound on pins of connector too.
use a good connector that is weather tight when hooked up.
