Dual alternator as a generator
On the EarthRoamer site they say; "We order Ford F-550 turbocharged diesel Power Stroke trucks with the dual alternator option which provides a quiet, fuel efficient, factory installed 3.7 kWh genera...
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Boatycall wrote:Wes Tausend wrote:
The 3.7 kWh claim seems a bit high. 3700watts/12volts = 308 amps, so such an output would require slightly over two 150 alternators run at maximum. What is the amp rating on the Ford alternators?
It's actually spot on. It's a normal Ford option called the Ambulance package. Nothing special. Each alternator is 160amps. They call it the ambulance package because it's standard on the ambulance chassis models.
They run a high end pure-sinewave inverter to run the medical equipment, as well as for redundancy.
Let's face it, it you're riding in the back of an ambulance and the alternator dies, there's a good chance you will too.
Yeah but we try not to idle them for prolonged periods of time. The rigs break down enough as it is. Last year on our E350 based ambulances 2 engines ( one gas, one diesel) one transmission. 2 alternators, enumerable elctrical wire chafes to the lines that feed the ambulance boxes, two egrs, one water pump, 2 ACs. There is a reason a lot of folks are moving away from the fords to sprinters for ambulances
