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Can you change the battery switch while the engine is running?
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ray lunder wrote: The AmplePower people agitate for strict prohibition on this saying it will smoke the diodes in your alternator. Is this true? What are you supposed to do? Start the boat with the starting battery, let it run for 10 minutes, turn the engine off and start it again with the house batteries and charge them under way? What say all of you? As you see, there are many answers, each of which is at least partially correct. Personally, the next time I make major mods to our battery banks, the starting battery will be directly connected to the alternator, the house banks connected to that battery with a simple on/off switch. First time I saw that setup was on a charter boat. Dead simple: On when motoring, off otherwise. The major mistake of course would be to leave them connected as you drew the bank down, but fumble-fingers can't fry the alternator. -- Jere Lull Xan-a-Deux ('73 Tanzer 28 #4 out of Tolchester, MD) Xan's Pages: http://members.dca.net/jerelull/X-Main.html Our BVI FAQs (290+ pics) http://homepage.mac.com/jerelull/BVI/ |
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