pianotuna wrote:
Hi,
What I wish to do is make up the power used by the Pinella remote. It requires the key on the Yamaha to be turned on. I did kill the OEM battery in the Yamaha generator.
I don't need a lot of power--the remote runs for a week before it drags the Yamaha starter battery down to the point of 'no start'.
Part of the problem is that I rarely use the generator. If I did--it would charge itself up. In the last year I used 3 tanks of gas in the Yamaha. It seems annoying to have to go outside to turn on the key--so that I can use the remote! * grin *
Seems to me that your lack of use far exceeds the actual use of the gen.
Putting you in a quandary of convenience vs inconvenience..
To make the remote 100% convenience requires a huge, convoluted, messy, expensive "work around" adding additional complexity which eventually can turn around and bit you in the rear.
For the extremely slight inconvenience of walking out once and a while to turn on the key to the gen to me does not seem like worth all of the hassle you are embarking on.
Now, with that said, you can setup your own "charge line" using a battery isolator or battery SOLENOID which would have much more amperage capacity instead of using a standard 30A-40A relay.
Then you will need some sort of low voltage disconnect to PROTECT YOUR VEHICLE STARTING BATTERY from being over discharged.. failure to do that can and will strand you..
But, in reality, you can avoid all of that by upsizing the battery on the generator.. 7Ahr-10Ahr is barely enough of a battery and upsizing the battery to higher capacity should stop burning up relays.. May mean some sort of battery case mod to the gen..
Heck my 8700 Watt home gen I am using a old worn battery out of a pickup truck, wasn't healthy enough to reliably start my pickup in winter, but has no problem spinning the gen over in winter.. They only recommended a 35Ahr battery for that gen..
