Yikes!
Now we’re in the weeds and better minds than mine must answer.
Doug
Douglas & Virginia Smith
dsmithy18 at gmail
Lincoln Nebraska
’73 “Canyonlands” since ‘95: “Wanabizo”, Anishinabe Indian for “He gets lost driving” Yes, really.
Quadrabag/6 wheel disks/3;70 final/Paterson QuadraJet/Sundry other
P&W PT6, no wait, that's the wish list...
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> OK. Let’s suppose that your converter is providing 13.5 volts or more to your house battery but you have a bad cell in your engine battery. Doesn’t that mean that it will keep trying to push current to the engine battery? What effect will that have on your house battery or your converter?
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> I am asking because I don’t have one and don’t know the answer
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> Emery Stora
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>> I’m not sure I understand Emery.
>> The combiner I put on says it will only “combine” if one side or the other is 13.5 volts. If both are less it does nothing and allows no current to pass either way. The way I understand it it will open only at 13.5 volts and feed to the side with the lower voltage till they both reach 13.5 volts. I like the idea very much and have been comforted with the thought that power from either the 120v charger or the engine alternator will top off everything. As for a failure mode, I’ll let you know when that happens.
>> Doug
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>> Douglas & Virginia Smith
>> dsmithy18 at gmail
>> Lincoln Nebraska
>> ’73 “Canyonlands” since ‘95: “Wanabizo”, Anishinabe Indian for “He gets lost driving” Yes, really.
>> Quadrabag/6 wheel disks/3;70 final/Paterson QuadraJet/Sundry other
>> P&W PT6, no wait, that's the wish list...
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>>> It doesn’t make any difference if you connect it to the isolator terminals or directly to the battery because the wires from the isolator lead to the battery.
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>>> I don’t use a combiner as it will allow current to flow either way when it is connected. So, if you have, for example a bad engine battery, it would draw from the house battery bank to the engine battery and possibly drain the house batteries.
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>>> Emery Stora
>>> 77 Kingsley
>>> Frederick, CO
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>>>> Something just seems wrong to me about combining an isolator. Don't know
>>>> what it might possibly be.
>>>> Jim Hupy
>>>> Salem, Or
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>>>> On Thu, Apr 11, 2019, 12:45 PM Kathy and Fred Estabrook via Gmclist <
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>>>>> Many thanks to all those who helped. Had a shakedown cruise this morning
>>>>> and everything works great. Thanks again.
>>>>> Fred Estabrook
>>>>> 76 El
>>>>> Florence AZ
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