New Boondocker converter test
So I connect it to a pair of 6 volts and measure immediately a whole bunch of amps heading toward my batteries. 64 or so. Is a 60 amp unit. I panicked cause I didn't want to overcharge but my god did...
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Dangit Landy, ya gotta add SARCASM for exaggeration to work right... my apologies.
Remember that little external rectifier box I chatted about several months ago? This would turn a 170 amp alternator into a constant RELIABLE source of 150 ampere power.
Some of the hairpin ND alternators, will develop 160 amperes at an idle in gear. 270 maximum cold, 238 amperes hot. A vehicle with the hood open allows the alternator to cool. Playing a fan onto the alternator (unless it's buried) allows it to work harder safely.
Imagine this --- Arizona. Summer. 120+F. Car loaded with accessories traveling down the highway with an accessory load in excess of 100 amperes. Newer cars do it every day every summer. Tens of thousands of cars in the Phoenix area.
So a newer tow vehicle parked in the shade in a camping area, with the hood up started cold can support near maximum capacity of an alternator and do it safely, time after time after time. A hundred fifty, two hundred amperes.
My ancient 7294 Delco motorhome specials, a modified 12SI were designed to produce 110 amperes at engine idle, constantly. They lived the life, perhaps 200-300 of them. Warranties? One or two and they weren't for burned stators or fried rectifiers. When Transpo Electronics went to hell I was forced to switch from the TVR-101HD regulator. I finally made the switch back to Transpo, but used their self excited 27-S regulator. It was a flat compensating reg that delivered 14.0 volts which RV batteries liked better than the 14.4 volts as specified in the 1116387 Delco original regulator.
This is OLD technology. Modern alternators are tied into the ECU computer so playing with regulators is out of the question. But running four six gauge wires to a remote rectifier is not out of the question. I did this on an old Vogue motorhome and I did it on a Freightliner towing a 40' fifth wheel. The six 3 cell batteries in the 5th wheel enjoyed an opportunity to see a charge rate of 170 amperes at dead idle. I used a 3825JA Leece-Neville alternator with an external voltage regulator. Full load voltage drop was around a half volt and with a current rating less than 50 voltage drop amounted to less than .3 volts.
Remember that little external rectifier box I chatted about several months ago? This would turn a 170 amp alternator into a constant RELIABLE source of 150 ampere power.
Some of the hairpin ND alternators, will develop 160 amperes at an idle in gear. 270 maximum cold, 238 amperes hot. A vehicle with the hood open allows the alternator to cool. Playing a fan onto the alternator (unless it's buried) allows it to work harder safely.
Imagine this --- Arizona. Summer. 120+F. Car loaded with accessories traveling down the highway with an accessory load in excess of 100 amperes. Newer cars do it every day every summer. Tens of thousands of cars in the Phoenix area.
So a newer tow vehicle parked in the shade in a camping area, with the hood up started cold can support near maximum capacity of an alternator and do it safely, time after time after time. A hundred fifty, two hundred amperes.
My ancient 7294 Delco motorhome specials, a modified 12SI were designed to produce 110 amperes at engine idle, constantly. They lived the life, perhaps 200-300 of them. Warranties? One or two and they weren't for burned stators or fried rectifiers. When Transpo Electronics went to hell I was forced to switch from the TVR-101HD regulator. I finally made the switch back to Transpo, but used their self excited 27-S regulator. It was a flat compensating reg that delivered 14.0 volts which RV batteries liked better than the 14.4 volts as specified in the 1116387 Delco original regulator.
This is OLD technology. Modern alternators are tied into the ECU computer so playing with regulators is out of the question. But running four six gauge wires to a remote rectifier is not out of the question. I did this on an old Vogue motorhome and I did it on a Freightliner towing a 40' fifth wheel. The six 3 cell batteries in the 5th wheel enjoyed an opportunity to see a charge rate of 170 amperes at dead idle. I used a 3825JA Leece-Neville alternator with an external voltage regulator. Full load voltage drop was around a half volt and with a current rating less than 50 voltage drop amounted to less than .3 volts.
