| Re: Flat battery today ...alternator? [message #370490 is a reply to message #370489] |
Mon, 12 September 2022 22:57   |
boybach
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Registered: December 2020
Location: Vancouver Island
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I didn't see the combiner, I'll have another look in a sec ...I got the blue aluminum fin unit. A bit larger physically than the one I took out but still fit in the space above the shut-off switch I installed last year. Mounted it using 2 of the existing holes and 2 self-tappers for the lower mounts to the aluminum plate. I never plug in to shore power so no real advantage to charge from the converter -unless I run the genny I guess?
With the temps being what they are this summer I'm running the dash a/c fan on max when I'm traveling -thankfully my dash A/C blows ice cubes even though it's an R134A conversion 
Larry
RF_Burns wrote on Mon, 12 September 2022 20:37Did you get the isolator that has the aluminum fins? or the one in the plastic case. The plastic case unit is a combiner. It connects the batteries together when it detects that either battery is getting a charge voltage, either from the alternator or the house power converter. Nothing wrong with the combiner, but you do lose the higher voltage from the alternator which is used on high-speed fan to give you more air flow from the dash heater-A/C unit.
Larry - Victoria BC -
1977 ex-Palm Beach "Ol' Leaky" 40,000 miles, PO said everything working but forgot the word NOT. Atwood helium fridge, water heater & furnace. SS exhaust system, Onan, Iota Converter, R134A, New fuel lines & heat exchange hoses
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