At 10:40 AM -0600 11/19/01, John Hutterer wrote:
>Here's what I'm thinking of doing.
>
>I have a 28volt DC generator, rated at 3 KW (105 amps maximum).
>I plan to connect four slave cables to the output of the generator and plug
>a cable into each of four vehicles. I'm hoping that the output from the
>generator will be approximately evenly divided among the various vehicle
>battery systems. If this is true, then no vehicle should receive more than
>about 25 amps of charging current. It seems to me that this system should be
>capable of keeping the batteries active, and charged, over the winter. I
>expect to run the charger on each group of 4 vehicles for a period of an
>hour, and then move on to the next group.
>
>Any comments or suggestions?
(I'm not a battery guru, but I do own an old Motorcycle that for a
while had a weak charging circuit, so I did the usual trickle charge
over night thing for a while until it was fixed..)
Probably not a bad idea to do this in this manner. Things to look out
for are over charging on each battery. Check to see that your
electrolyte level's stay high. Take a look at the batteries first to
see how they do. Test running some of the vehicles would be a good
idea early on to be sure you aren't burning out the batteries.
I'm assuming that 25 amps per battery is about what they should get
for charging. If it is then the electrical systems should take it
just fine.
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