Equip for Your Scenario
Up to lately with a 5er, camping in provincial parks in the winter off-grid, under the trees with no solar possible, and a two-hour time limit on generators 9-11am and 6-8pm (that one in the dark) usi...
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MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
What is your chassis? The year and model? Image possible of alternator?
Don't have a clue what alternator it has, hard to see anything down in the short engine compartment up front. Some of the engine stuff is back in the cab under a cover. It is a 1991 Ford E350 460 7.5 gasser with EFI.
I only discovered it had any alternator charging to the house batts recently after I installed the Trimetric and saw the amps while idling. I was fooled earlier just checking voltages at each end by the isolator the Ford has when the engine is off. My Chev truck has the 7-pin stay live all the time.
There is a wire, 8 or 10? that goes from the pos engine batt post to an isolator and then a circuit breaker looking little box then back to somewhere--likely to the DC fuse panel back in the RV part of the rig maybe 10-12 feet.
Then off to the batts for more length. Not very fat wire. I can improve on all that if I need to. I read about the voltage drop across an isolator ISTR. There is no dash button to power the engine side from the house batts. I know about putting the pos wire on the alternator itself instead of the engine batt from previous threads on here if I can even get at that.
I am busy with getting other things the way we like them for now, but I will be looking into the battery charging side eventually. I may not even need to change anything. Need more camping time and learn more how things go.
