On Aug 14, 4:31 pm, Richard Kollmann
wrote:
...The belt slipping is preventing a
battery fire or boat explosion right now ...

You are right that I haven't been following Skip's post as closely as
I'd like (my reader does horrible things to his hard returns). So I
don't know what his set-up is like. Still, I don't follow what you
are suggesting. Are you saying that his controllers are allowing his
alternators to put out more than their rated amperage? I've got AGMs
and they can absorb all the amps my two 120 amp single belt
alternators can put out for up to half an hour when I have deeply
discharged them. Even under those conditions good belts seem to last
and so do the alternators (though my smart controller does add some
protection for them). I don't claim any knowledge of these things but
I've never heard of belts being used like fuses. My car uses a belt
for the timing and I'm having a hard time groking a condition where
having it slip would protect anything. So, I ask in genuine
ignorance, are the belts intended to be sacrificial or is Skip's some
kind of special case?

-- Tom.