Disclaimer: I am an electrician and not a diesel mechanic and I have a passing acquaintance with Detroit engines. That said; not only is a 60...
Suggest you put the isolation switch outside of the battery box to make it accessible in case of a casualty. If the batteries were...
The Blue Sea Series 187 is rated at 5000 AIC http://bluesea.com/category/3/10/productline/overview/14 On/Off switches do not require an AIC...
To be in compliance with ABYC E-11 you have to match the AIC of the breaker with the potential energy in the battery that it may have to interrupt...
The technology of the vintage of your charger was ferroresonant. Essentially a constant voltage output with circuitry that tripped output voltage...
What are the battery specs for the AGMs you are installing on your boat? As I tried to point out in my long post above, these number are not...
If the inverter is 85% efficient and the charger is 90% efficient then your efficiency from alternator to battery is .85 x .90 = 77%. And you...
I think that battery isolators had their place but that place has been taken over by battery combiners; a.k.a., Automatic Charge Relays (Blue Sea)...
Hot Rod- A things to think about regarding your system: 1. Use a battery combiner; e.g., Blue Sea Systems 7600 in lieu of the battery isolator....
Battery Charging Specifics Hot Rod- I started studying this subject about a year ago because I was perplexed in the number of premature lead...
For 110 VAC systems: The current carrying conductors (L and N) from any source (shore power, genset, inverter, cold fusion thermoelectric, etc.)...
WOW...this is an old thread!!! OK...there are bits and pieces of fact throughout all of these posts. I am an installer, a ham and have cruised...
Seek and ye shall find: http://www.kzvalve.com/ What they call brass valves are actually bronze...I already contacted them and had this...
pbekker- Not totally on topic, but I looked at the Draka website you posted and found the following specs for 4 conductor AWG 10 (FLSXTPO-10)...
All of these battery monitoring systems are designed for the shunt to be installed in the negative (B-) return to the battery bank. So step 1 is...
