Mar-13-2019 02:11 AM
Mar-18-2019 07:35 PM
Mar-18-2019 05:09 PM
DSDP Don wrote:
You know....sometimes some of you can destroy a post with stupid information. What Doug posted is accurate for about 99% of the RV's on the road. Then someone comes along and says his 1948 Shasta trailer conversion with a 63 Buick chassis doesn't work that way. DUH! Some will go out of their way to prove someone wrong when the rest of the group understands that most information is generic to the AVERAGE RV, not some old style charging system that is no longer around.
Even worse.....the statement below is absolutely useless and a prime example of taking a simple statement to help others understand to the EXTREME!
"Sorry Doug - a converter/charger does not make energy...it changes energy from one form to another. A generator makes energy. A battery makes energy. By definition. I'm an EE and have worked in the power industry for many, many years. If you want to think that a inverter/charger makes energy please go right ahead, but that's not correct."
I haven't been on this forum for quite awhile because of this type of stuff. Doug goes out of his way to help others, yet those who never post anything to help, are always there to criticze.
Mar-18-2019 04:10 PM
Mar-17-2019 12:18 PM
Mar-17-2019 08:40 AM
Mar-17-2019 08:00 AM
Mar-17-2019 02:07 AM
Tom/Barb wrote:mchero wrote:
Our last two diesel coaches both had generators with alternators on them. They would indeed charge what ever battery bank was supplying 12VDC to the generator(s)
Ours does too, our generator starts from the chassis battery pack. and it will charge that battery pack. once the chassis battery is up to a certain point the intellic box will close the relay and the house battery will charge also.
all this is while the inverter/charger is off.
Mar-16-2019 05:57 PM
mchero wrote:
Our last two diesel coaches both had generators with alternators on them. They would indeed charge what ever battery bank was supplying 12VDC to the generator(s)
Mar-16-2019 09:30 AM
dougrainer wrote:
NO RV Genset charges any battery. Gensets have NO charging system at all. What the genset does is supply 120 power to the onboard COACH Converter or Inverter/charger, whichever you have, and THAT appliance charges the coach batteries ONLY. Your Emergency BOOST, requires the COACH batteries to be charged. The BOOST button is activated by the Coach battery 12 volt signal. It then merges the coach and Chassis batteries by a solenoid to supply power to start the engine. Odds are, as another posted stated, you had a temp bad connection on the engine starter/solenoid system. Doug
Mar-16-2019 07:12 AM
dougrainer wrote:
Please READ and COMPREHEND my post. It is 100 percent accurate.
Mar-15-2019 04:46 PM
wolfe10 wrote:
OK, perhaps time to take a "chill pill".
Good information posts have degraded into personal attacks.
That is NOT what the Forum is about.
Thanks.
Mar-15-2019 06:40 AM
Mar-15-2019 06:16 AM
Mar-15-2019 03:18 AM
dougrainer wrote:Tom/Barb wrote:dougrainer wrote:
Please READ and COMPREHEND my post. It is 100 percent accurate. Gensets as well as Shore Power CANNOT charge batteries. All they do is supply 120 POWER to the actual charging appliances on the RV. Disconnect or have a bad Converter or Inverter/Charger. Then try and charge your RV. Doug
If The Inverter/charger is the "charger" where does it get the energy to do that.
How can the Inverter/charger which makes no energy, so how can it be the charger?
The inverter charger is only directing and controlling the charge rate That is all it can do.
You know, I was being nice. Since you either do not like me or you are a jerk, Inverter/CHARGERS are a BATTERY CHARGER. It takes 120 volts to make them work. GENSETS, HAVE NO CHARGER. If you disconnect the Inverter/Charger or your Converter, within about 24 hours your Genset will stop running as it requires 12 volts to stay running. It will draw its needed current from the battery bank supplying it until that battery bank is depleted by the Genset. AN INVERTER/CHARGER MAKES ENERGY. Doug