Deep cycle or starter battery charging issues
I recenty moved from a class B to a small fiver. My old van had one deep cycle battery and I installed an isolator. This set up was good for several nights of light usage before I had to run the van t...
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The "Recharge Time Element" is such that if you must have fast rechargability consider AGM, a couple of whoppers for chargers and maybe a three thousand watt inverter generator.
Things happen quicker when the generator is stuffing 200 amperes into a battery bank. I used to cram up to 400 into my batteries. Then I got old and started to go to bed earlier, avoid Badwater on the 4th of July, and detested paying more for gasoline than for whole milk. But when I start a generator it ain't gonna get the chance to play Layback Lenny. Every last gallon of gasoline is three dollars and change. It doesn't take much to slurp and burp a hundred gallons and that isn't chicken feed. Try as I might I cannot whistle and have gasoline show up, I have to use even more to go get it and rub rubber off the tires and foul the engine oil a little more. I think if my generators had legs they'd run away from home. A generator is doomed to a hard life on my rancho
Things happen quicker when the generator is stuffing 200 amperes into a battery bank. I used to cram up to 400 into my batteries. Then I got old and started to go to bed earlier, avoid Badwater on the 4th of July, and detested paying more for gasoline than for whole milk. But when I start a generator it ain't gonna get the chance to play Layback Lenny. Every last gallon of gasoline is three dollars and change. It doesn't take much to slurp and burp a hundred gallons and that isn't chicken feed. Try as I might I cannot whistle and have gasoline show up, I have to use even more to go get it and rub rubber off the tires and foul the engine oil a little more. I think if my generators had legs they'd run away from home. A generator is doomed to a hard life on my rancho
