| House bank charging issue [message #219990] |
Mon, 26 August 2013 11:39  |
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Matt Colie
Messages: 8547
Registered: March 2007
Location: S.E. Michigan
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For the past 6 years, we didn't have a problem.
We only traveled in the spring and fall and usually drove for 10~12 hours a day and stopped at the rally ground where we had shore power. That or we did weekend trips that were not a problem.
Now we are doing leisurely travel in the summer, our under-counter size refrigerator (all you can fit in a 23's reefer hole) is a power hungry monster if it is over 70° and we can't keep the house bank up with an alternator that tops out at 13.6 and drops to 13.2 when the bank is less than 50%. Even then, it is push near 90 amps, but the regulator (even the new one) cuts it down too soon.
Does anybody have a plan to push the exist 10SI alternator to higher to a voltage out so that I can use nearly the machine's capability?
If I can do this, I could do with a lot less APU time during an excursion like the last.
Please,
Don't suggest an absorption refrigerator unless you are going to give me one. Even then, I have to talk Mary out of the extra storage freezer volume that we now have. If I had the ~1K$us to spend on it, I would replace the Norcold with another. The charm of the cheap dorm reefer and the HF inverter is that the package cost was less than 200$.
Matt
Matt & Mary Colie - Chaumière -'73 Glacier 23 - Members GMCMI, GMCGL, GMCES
Electronically Controlled Quiet Engine Cooling Fan with OE Rear Drum Brakes with Applied Control Arms
SE Michigan - Near DTW - Twixt A2 and Detroit
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