Magnum inverter.

BFL13 wrote:
If you ever get this sorted out, you should get the Nobel Prize for RV Trouble-shooting :) The guy has been living with this for years and years? Amazing. Makes you wonder what else is going on out there that never reaches us on this forum. :(

Oh I bet. I have been out walking or riding my bike and often start talking to people. It often leads into stuff like them saying do you run your gen to watch tv or what kind of batteries do I have etc.

I met a guy who was working on his gen because it was surging. Generac in a mh. I have an air compressor so we blew out the carb and helped it. Main jet tube was stripped so we couldn't begin to remove it for proper cleaning. From there it went into him saying how the batteries won't charge. I dipped the 4 six volts and the gravity was so low that the pendulum barely moved. He had old solar panels that were probably 150 watts with Romex spliced all over along with an old inverter charger that put out 13.5 to the battery. I reset the inverter and it started to charge so I told him to run it all day and the next day too.

I stopped by a few times and checked it. By evening it had moved up just under the blue zone. That night I told him to run it tomorrow too. He said its fine and that my hydrometer is broke. Ah OK.

I was talking to another guy about off road buggies and of course it went into asking me about my panels. He said he had solar but it didn't seem to work. I looked at it and it was 15 watts with alligator clips. He was charging with that and an automotive type charger. The generator was about 100 ft away on extension cords. He had a new group 24 that had gravity down in the blue zone. It was parallel with an agm. I told him run the gen all day and tomorrow too. He ran it about another hour and shut it off. I asked if they ran the furnace. His DW said NO its freezing in there at night.

I'd be divorced.

It's not easy to be your own energy company. This guy with the magnum just recently started looking at the ah down each morning. Now that the solar is working I told him to step on the throttle and run it down to minus 80ah or so and then watch how his solar performs the next day. I said after awhile you will have a feel of the whole thing. His batteries are approaching 5 yr and probably haven't had complete charges all the time. He's contemplating new ones but thats another post.