Generator Battery Not Charging
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05-29-2005, 23:44
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Generator Battery Not Charging
kind of crude says it all,in this case. randydupree93wb
----- Original Message ----- From: Tom Warner To: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2005 11:39 PM Subject: Re: [WanderlodgeForum] Re: Generator Battery Not Charging Jeff even after this problem being aired on this forum and the old wanderlodge forum countless times, the same problem seems to exist which is how the BB factory provided for the charging of the Kohler Generator on the 1980's FC models. The answer is they did not. A resistor pack cannot provide DC charging voltage from a AC source(generator). So throw that idea out. The Kohler generator apparently had three options, an alternator (which made no sense to use on the BB version since it already had chargers and an engine alternator) a Bridge rectifier as part of the controller box, and nothing as appears to have been how mine was originally equipped (no bridge rectifier in the control box). BB apparently at least in my case...nothing. The bridge rectifier version also came with a 8 amp self setting cirucuit breaker and fed the battery thru a DC meter. The problem was it only charged the battery when the generator was running and thus no run no charge. The BB engineers never envisioned that the generator battery would run down if left in this state for any length of time. When the generator was running the coach chargers would charge the coach batteries etc and the same for shore power. Guess thats why so many early BB had so few hours on them. You may not want to hear it but BB did make some mistakes in designing and building these coaches. From what I found out at the factory talking to Ray Horne when I first bought my coach, the engineers were not aware of this problem until customers started complaining of run down generator batteries. Thats when they published the diagram I just uploaded onto the forum site. Kind of crude but it works. Tom 1982 FC35 Vernon Center,NY At 02:11 PM 5/29/2005 +0000, you wrote: >Although the diode/breaker fix is correct, the comment that there is no >charging and BB forgot it is not at all correct. > >I"m pretty sure that the original genset battery charging on the early >Kohler was a resistor pack in the control box which trickle-charged the >battery from the generator output. This was not very reliable (Kohler's >issue, not BB's) and a later "fix" became available, eventually >replaced in late '82 by the battery isolator system. > > - Jeff Miller > > >--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, Tom Warner >wrote: > > Chuck the diagram for the 1982 is very simple. There is no OEM >generator > > charging. They forgot it.<<snip>> > > > > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links a.. To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WanderlodgeForum/ b.. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: WanderlodgeForum-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com c.. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] |
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Generator Battery Not Charging - Jeff August - 05-26-2005, 22:28
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Generator Battery Not Charging - Tom Warner - 05-28-2005, 17:25
Generator Battery Not Charging - Chuck Wheeler - 05-28-2005, 17:27
Generator Battery Not Charging - Jeff Miller - 05-29-2005, 02:11
Generator Battery Not Charging - Tom Warner - 05-29-2005, 15:39
Generator Battery Not Charging - randydupree - 05-29-2005 23:44
Generator Battery Not Charging - Jeff Miller - 05-30-2005, 02:14
Generator Battery Not Charging - erniecarpet@... - 05-30-2005, 02:34
Generator Battery Not Charging - randydupree - 05-30-2005, 02:51
Generator Battery Not Charging - Tom Warner - 05-30-2005, 06:18
Generator Battery Not Charging - erniecarpet@... - 05-30-2005, 06:43
Generator Battery Not Charging - erniecarpet@... - 05-30-2005, 07:00
Generator Battery Not Charging - Jeff Miller - 05-30-2005, 07:42
Generator Battery Not Charging - George Lowry - 05-30-2005, 09:52
Generator Battery Not Charging - Tom Warner - 05-30-2005, 10:18
Generator Battery Not Charging - Jeff August - 05-30-2005, 10:30
Generator Battery Not Charging - George Lowry - 05-30-2005, 10:48
Generator Battery Not Charging - Tom Warner - 05-30-2005, 10:49
Generator Battery Not Charging - George Lowry - 05-30-2005, 10:50
Generator Battery Not Charging - Jeff Miller - 05-30-2005, 12:35
Generator Battery Not Charging - krminyl@... - 05-30-2005, 12:49
Generator Battery Not Charging - Jeff August - 05-30-2005, 13:06
Generator Battery Not Charging - Jeff Miller - 05-30-2005, 14:09
Generator Battery Not Charging - Mike Hohnstein - 05-30-2005, 14:55
Generator Battery Not Charging - randydupree - 05-30-2005, 23:39
Generator Battery Not Charging - erniecarpet@... - 05-31-2005, 07:46
Generator Battery Not Charging - bobloomas - 05-31-2005, 10:15
Generator Battery Not Charging - randydupree - 05-31-2005, 10:30
Generator Battery Not Charging - bobloomas - 05-31-2005, 11:33
Generator Battery Not Charging - randydupree - 05-31-2005, 12:12
Generator Battery Not Charging - bobloomas - 05-31-2005, 12:56
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