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1L243
Explorer II
Aug 18, 2021

Honda 2000i generator amps surging up and down

I'm dry camping in Wyoming for the past 9 days been running on solar with no problems. Rain today batteries down to 78% so started up the generator. Solar is turned off to the coach solar charge ...
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time2roll
Nomad
Aug 19, 2021
1L243 wrote:
My converter has four charging cycles as the charging on 75% battery level begins the converter could show 25+/- amps as the batteries become more charged it drops to 15a to 8amps and by the time ths batteries are at 90% to 3 amps or less. Which make charging on the generator for only 3 amps a waste of gas.
What converter? Once you hit peak voltage on the battery (14.4 volts?) run the generator one additional hour and you are done.

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