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MEXICOWANDERER
Jun 15, 2015Explorer
Like most OEM's repair parts are a huge augmentation to corporate bottom line profits.
Buy a 2015 Chevy pickup piece by piece and it'll cost many hundreds of thousands of dollars.
And also exactly like other OEM's, the manufacturer KNOWS how long a part is going to last. ONAN is one of the biggest offenders, using hare-brained design, unique, incredibly overpriced parts. This is why for stand-alone use I chose Kubota and Kato.
Honda is great until things go wrong. My Yamaha diesel had so many adaptations and work-arounds it wasn't funny. Seventeen dollars for a cigar thickness three inch fuel filter paper element convinced me of that. In went a Racor.
I would yank the garbage Honda breaker and replace it with a standard push button reset 250V breaker.
Sounds like the circuit would be useful for equalization and top charging at no greater than 110 amp hours and no less than 90 amp hours.
Those rare-earth magnets start the excitation process. Brushless alternators are HARD to get excitation without major modifications. That's why brushless Niehoff alternators, and the 25 and 30 SI Delco alternators are not well liked. Niehoff, BTW is another company that needs psychiatric help in the automotive alternator design dept. Astronomical prices for repair parts and zero alternative parts sourced. Their big alternators are OK until you go to repair one.
Buy a 2015 Chevy pickup piece by piece and it'll cost many hundreds of thousands of dollars.
And also exactly like other OEM's, the manufacturer KNOWS how long a part is going to last. ONAN is one of the biggest offenders, using hare-brained design, unique, incredibly overpriced parts. This is why for stand-alone use I chose Kubota and Kato.
Honda is great until things go wrong. My Yamaha diesel had so many adaptations and work-arounds it wasn't funny. Seventeen dollars for a cigar thickness three inch fuel filter paper element convinced me of that. In went a Racor.
I would yank the garbage Honda breaker and replace it with a standard push button reset 250V breaker.
Sounds like the circuit would be useful for equalization and top charging at no greater than 110 amp hours and no less than 90 amp hours.
Those rare-earth magnets start the excitation process. Brushless alternators are HARD to get excitation without major modifications. That's why brushless Niehoff alternators, and the 25 and 30 SI Delco alternators are not well liked. Niehoff, BTW is another company that needs psychiatric help in the automotive alternator design dept. Astronomical prices for repair parts and zero alternative parts sourced. Their big alternators are OK until you go to repair one.
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