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Naio
Explorer II
Mar 30, 2015

How much gas does your genny use? And a charging question

After generous advice and hand-holding from folks here, I experimented with running my van engine to charge house batteries when dry camping, as I do not yet have a genny or solar. I used an MSW inve...
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BFL13
Explorer II
Mar 30, 2015
Works for me! I tried it out to use as Plan B if the Honda gen won't work for some reason. In this case, the OP doesn't have a Honda at all.

Idled truck for an hour no problem, the Vector charger ran normally. I had a MSW Xantrex inverter at the time, shown hanging out from the fender (it overheated and shut off when up on the fender closer to the engine)

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