SlowBro wrote:
2112 wrote:
Can you get your vehicle close enough to the house battery to use jumper cables? That's how I do it.
Per this battery manufacturer, alternators direct connected (using battery cables or jumper cables) are not designed to charge batteries, only maintain them. Also, I recall an Interstate battery tech telling me the same.
But inverters are common, provided I get the sizing right, engine RPMs, all that
So let me see if I got this correct: You are concerned about using your charging system going straight from the source (alternator) to your depleted group 24 battery, but you're ok with going from the source, through an inefficient inverter, back through an inefficient converter to recreate the DC you just had? How could that possibly be better?
I bulk my group 29 battery for about 20 minutes with jumper cables when needed. That gets me back to about 75%. You don't need to completely recharge your battery every time. It's inefficient doing so with a generator. Give it a good full charge when you get home.
