Home made battery isolator system
I thought I'd put this out there in case anyone else likes the idea; I never liked the battery isolators I had. They had voltage loss and sometimes just failed. Then I went to a marine type battery s...
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That's pretty much what I did. A continuous-duty solenoid from NAPA, and I'm controlling it with one of the up-fitter switches that were just sitting there doing nothing. They're only active when the engine is running with the key in the ignition (not remote started).
While I was at it I connected a second up-fitter switch to the appropriate wires under the dash that tell the ECM to go into "Battery Charge Protect" mode, which causes it to monitor the battery voltage and manipulate the engine idle enough to keep the batteries fully charged.
:):)
While I was at it I connected a second up-fitter switch to the appropriate wires under the dash that tell the ECM to go into "Battery Charge Protect" mode, which causes it to monitor the battery voltage and manipulate the engine idle enough to keep the batteries fully charged.
:):)
