5teve
Well-Known Member
HI Guys
Looking to the collective wisdom and experience here. May need to replace my batteries soon and can source some Heavy duty high density standby batteries that apparently are not to be charged by an alternator. Im going to be adding a 3kw inverter in soon so looking for the highest density battery that can deal with UPS style load.. the 'used' ones I can get are a fraction of the price of a marine deep cycle or similar. So looking at say a 50amp DC to DC with solar controller built in. They apparently charge faster than an alternator.
Currently I have 2x VSR's (one way) that once each crank is charged they allow both alternators to charge the house bank (yes I know its not double the charge as they fight each other) and it seems to work quite well.. so wondering if I was to get a DC to DC charger.. how I would treat it? use one engine only to supply it? keep the vsrs and then have the DC to DC charger fed from the link between the 2 (ie the point the house bank is charged from currently) or ??
Any advice or experience will be gratefully received
Steve
Looking to the collective wisdom and experience here. May need to replace my batteries soon and can source some Heavy duty high density standby batteries that apparently are not to be charged by an alternator. Im going to be adding a 3kw inverter in soon so looking for the highest density battery that can deal with UPS style load.. the 'used' ones I can get are a fraction of the price of a marine deep cycle or similar. So looking at say a 50amp DC to DC with solar controller built in. They apparently charge faster than an alternator.
Currently I have 2x VSR's (one way) that once each crank is charged they allow both alternators to charge the house bank (yes I know its not double the charge as they fight each other) and it seems to work quite well.. so wondering if I was to get a DC to DC charger.. how I would treat it? use one engine only to supply it? keep the vsrs and then have the DC to DC charger fed from the link between the 2 (ie the point the house bank is charged from currently) or ??
Any advice or experience will be gratefully received
Steve
