Charging issue on 1983 Jamboree Class C
Hello, all. I have gotten some great help on other issues, but here is a new one. My main battery is not charging, but when the engine is running I see 17 volts at the heat sink/regulator looking ...
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MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
SEVENTEEN VOLTS? No way José!
You are measuring the voltage at the CENTER terminal of that rectifier type battery isolator. I will forgive ONE VOLT DROP across each rectifier but not more than that.
Something does not add up BIG TIME
My advice is to purchase a battery COMBINER solenoid, called a BI-DIRECTIONAL BATTERY COMBINER.
Reconnect the CHASSIS BATTERY WIRE (one of the outer wires on that isolator) directly to the center wire. You need to find out which of the outer wires goes where. SOLDER THE CONNECTION or use a stud type junction. I would use one with a stud no smaller than 1/4" diameter. Ring terminal the two wires together.
GET A BI-DIRECTIONAL (not just one direction) BATTERY COMBINER. Sure Power makes a good one. You can find them at allbatterysales.com. Make SURE it is bi directional. There are two models available. Get the right one.
Simply follow the simple connection instructions. A novice can do it.
With the BATTERY COMBINER IN PLACE, when nothing is being charged, the battery banks are separated just like they should be. However NOW, when ANYTHING ANYWHERE is being charged, everything charges. All the batteries. Automatically.
Battery isolators, cotton cord tires, tube type radios, voltage regulator cutouts, TV antenna rotators, telephones with speaker tubes. They all belong in the dustbin of history. Battery isolators are horrible. As outmoded and needlessly frustrating and using an operator to call long distance. Recycle the aluminum housing.
Wait wait...tube radios?!??! Vacuum tube (CRT) screen computers I can see, but not tube radios or amps.
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