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SuaveGato
Sep 27, 2014Explorer
Hello again all,
so i got some time to do some things and have made some headway... I pulled my batteries and found one nearly empty and one just a bit low. In process of seeing if I can re-vive the one with some distilled H2O etc. if not, I'll buy a replacement. Will also be looking into adding one of the converters that will keep my batteries charged PROPERLY, and provide me with an inverter source of power too. Right now, the only inverter I have is for the generator but it is stand alone and ONLY used while the Gen is running, so it would be nice to have an inverter that ran off of the batteries for some simple short term applications etc.
Also found something interesting... I figured out why my batteries would go dead when not plugged into shore power for extd. periods of time, EVEN THOUGH I HAVE SOLAR! Factory solar installed FROM THE DEALER but they didn't put in a solar control module! there are two wires coming from the solar panel, taped to two wires that feed to the batteries but they are NOT connected and there is no solar module! DUH! So looks like I'll be buying and adding one of those as well!
Thanks for all of the help. Will now be researching solar modules and "converters"...
so i got some time to do some things and have made some headway... I pulled my batteries and found one nearly empty and one just a bit low. In process of seeing if I can re-vive the one with some distilled H2O etc. if not, I'll buy a replacement. Will also be looking into adding one of the converters that will keep my batteries charged PROPERLY, and provide me with an inverter source of power too. Right now, the only inverter I have is for the generator but it is stand alone and ONLY used while the Gen is running, so it would be nice to have an inverter that ran off of the batteries for some simple short term applications etc.
Also found something interesting... I figured out why my batteries would go dead when not plugged into shore power for extd. periods of time, EVEN THOUGH I HAVE SOLAR! Factory solar installed FROM THE DEALER but they didn't put in a solar control module! there are two wires coming from the solar panel, taped to two wires that feed to the batteries but they are NOT connected and there is no solar module! DUH! So looks like I'll be buying and adding one of those as well!
Thanks for all of the help. Will now be researching solar modules and "converters"...
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