Re: Bateries vs genset Reply #26 – May 28, 2014, 10:31:45 pm Yahoo Message Number: 146607For what it's worth, when I bought my 2003 midbath (used) in 2006, the generator had a few dozen hours on it. After nearly eight years of full-timing, it now has 967.8 hours. That number speaks for itself: I've gotten plenty of use out of this generator. Others have pointed out the many occasions when a generator is useful. I'll add two more: running power tools while doing renovations and enhancements to the rig; and running an AC-powered air compressor.I owned a Lazy Daze with no generator for six years. I'll never do that again. Yes, it had hundreds of watts of solar panels and a big inverter. Not the same thing. When you need a generator, you need a generator. That's my two cents' worth.Andy Baird http://www.andybaird.com/travels
Re: Bateries vs genset Reply #27 – May 28, 2014, 11:01:28 pm Yahoo Message Number: 146608Here here as the Brits would say. Currently boondocking in MN. No solar but have generator. After 10 days without electric batts ran out. Needed genset to recharge so reefer would work on gas. Also used genset to run air compressor. If I didn't have a genset I would at least carry a Honda portable. But I would never go without a generator.John A Wozniak Sent from iPhone Please excuse any typos
Re: Bateries vs genset Reply #28 – May 28, 2014, 11:20:07 pm Yahoo Message Number: 146610If the factory won't install a TurboKool for you, then ask them if they would install a 1/4" plastic water line from the area of the water pump to the edge of the standard vent opening where a T-K would go (you will want the water line on the pax side of the opening of the rearmost vent on a Mid-Bath). Also have them run 12VDC to it as they would if installing a Fantastic Fan. Then ask them nicely to tape plastic over the opening leaving you a couple of feet of hose hangin' out at the vent (grin).This will make life very easy for the bloke that installs the T-K later. 12 volts would be there for the Fantastic fan anyway, of course, but running the water line is a little more challenging after the fact. In the MB, I did it via the hole by the driver side couch to access the cold water line going to the shower. A saddle tap works if you don't try to cinch it down too tight. Then a hole is drilled into the plumbing vent at the same location and the 1/4" water line is run up to the roof via that vent. So it's all doable, just nicer to have them run the wire and water line when they are doing the build.bumper
Re: Bateries vs genset Reply #29 – May 28, 2014, 11:26:53 pm Yahoo Message Number: 146611As to the comment on how much battery charge current one can get from the alternator:That will depend on a couple of things, battery internal resistance, wiring resistance between alternator and battery bank, how much is "lost" to the forward voltage drop of the diode isolator (figure .7 volts for a silicone diode). Bottom line, on my '05 I've seen 75 amps from the alternator into my two parallel battery banks (4 Trojan batteries). So it can be way more than a couple of amps, and better than most converters.Now, as Andy will attest, the Prosine 2000 is something else. It starts out putting 110 amps into my 450 AH battery banks, so it really makes charging from the gen-set a lot more efficient than the engine alternator.bumper
Re: Bateries vs genset Reply #30 – May 29, 2014, 01:15:25 am Yahoo Message Number: 146613Turbo Kool's predecessor used to be standard equipment, no?My 1991 came with it. Why would the factory object to putting one in now?-Bill
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