Help me with keeping the batteries charged! The saga continues. My aftercoolers are shot. The QSC 8.3 cooler ETA is October! The generator heat exchanger is removed for service. I really need to find some way to charge the batteries. Thank you in advance!
As some of you may recall, I won't have 220/50-amp in my dock for another 2 months (due to permits & plans for the whole house/dock remodel). My 2008 44 has an isolation transformer to keep me from using my single 110/30-amp dock power. I'd to know what my easiest or best option is to maintain the batteries for the next 2 months. We won't need to use A/C, stove, heater, water heater, or any of the fridges, just LED lights occasionally. I have 4x AGM 195 AH 4D (house/gen/engine) battereis and 2X flooded gp 31 thruster batteries. Please advise:
As some of you may recall, I won't have 220/50-amp in my dock for another 2 months (due to permits & plans for the whole house/dock remodel). My 2008 44 has an isolation transformer to keep me from using my single 110/30-amp dock power. I'd to know what my easiest or best option is to maintain the batteries for the next 2 months. We won't need to use A/C, stove, heater, water heater, or any of the fridges, just LED lights occasionally. I have 4x AGM 195 AH 4D (house/gen/engine) battereis and 2X flooded gp 31 thruster batteries. Please advise:
- Use my little 2amp auto maintenance charger. The 4 house batteries are 4x195=780AH in parrallel. Is it okay just to leave these connected to one of the batteries constantly? Can I connect one of these 2amp charger to the thruster batteries one at a time, since they are in series. Do I need to the chargers with higher AH such as the NOCO Genius 10?
- I also have the big old style 'automatic' 10amp chargers but I don't think those have float maintaince mode. Are fine if I disconnect them when the batteries are full?
- Can I heck into the 2 boat chargers with 110v extension cords, bypassing the isolation tranformer? Can I use the the 110v 15amp outlet (vs the 110v 30amp outlet)? The ProNautic charges the thruster batteries and the Inteli-Power charges the 4 gp 4D batteries.