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You forgot about the awning and generator that we installed.

A fun and productive day for sure! OK, well it was at least productive. LOL

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'76 Celica

SWEET!!!!:cheer:

We need an awning and generator smiley.

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Well, we DID fix an easy-up, AND installed new batteries - I think that's close enough

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Dustin Fredrickson
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When we checked the battery inside the bus we noticed the voltage was very low on it ~11.5v. I'm curious if it is being charged enough. Does anyone know the charge ability of the alternator?

I would use 10.5v as an absolute voltage that we have completed depleated the battery. If the load is light inside the bus I would be enclined to use a number more like 11 volts. Ideally you would want to turn the bus on to charge it before you hit this point. Since the battery was at 11.5 after the trip back from the RX where it had been charging I'm guess the battery was either bad, or quite low, or both. Does anyone know the current point we are using to turn the bus on?

usually the bus doesn't get turned on until either the bus workers start bitching about how hot it is or when the whistle in the invertor (I think that is where it is at anyway) starts annoying us. I have no idea where the voltage needs to drop to in order for it to trip the alarm.

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Todd Breakey
STS 42 - 1992 Sunburst Miata
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"You souldn't play leap frog with a porcupine. You might get hurt." - Eliza

IIR, those inverters get mad right around 12V. The charging circuit worked fine last I saw it (sometime last year) - I believe the power taps on the walls of the bus have voltmeters on them so it should be an easy check.

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Dustin Fredrickson
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