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monicarick01
Explorer
May 19, 2014

Can I charge batteries with a charger and generator?

I have an on-board generator and was wondering if it was possible to hook up a battery charger to the trailer, while the generator was running and use any "extra" power that the generator produced to...
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dbbls
Explorer
May 19, 2014
Won't work. When your onboard generator is running your batteries will show full charge because the converter is putting power to them. A separate battery charger will read this as a fully charged battery and will not provide any power to the battery.

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