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techntrek
Admin Group - pHp Joined: 29 Jul 2009 Location: MD Online Status: Offline Posts: 9062 |
Topic: GENERATOR Posted: 22 Sep 2014 at 10:13pm |
A heavy duty set of jumper cables is best, which is good to have in the TV anyway. Hook up like you would jump two vehicles + to +, - to -.
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Doug ~ '10 171 (2009-2015) ~ 2008 Salem ~ Pod instruction manual
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Podster
Senior Member Joined: 16 Sep 2014 Location: San Antonio Online Status: Offline Posts: 1108 |
Posted: 22 Sep 2014 at 10:20pm |
Why cables, why not just connect the tow wire harness to charge the battery?
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hogone
Senior Member Joined: 09 Apr 2013 Location: St. Louis Online Status: Offline Posts: 1049 |
Posted: 23 Sep 2014 at 6:37am |
clear on the cables tech. i have dual batterys, should i hook up to just one, or pos to one and neg to the other. maybe it doesn't matter. hopefully not another stupid hogone question, just want to be sure.
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Jon & Pam
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2McPods
Groupie Joined: 20 Aug 2014 Location: Pittsburgh,PA Online Status: Offline Posts: 67 |
Posted: 23 Sep 2014 at 6:50am |
Hello, question on generator? We normal camp at electric sites and would like to venture out to non electric. What size generator would we need to run the pods 13,500 btu A/C ?
Thanks, Viki
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Pat & Viki McCartney 2015 171 {2McPods} 2014 F150 Pittsburgh, Pa |
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hogone
Senior Member Joined: 09 Apr 2013 Location: St. Louis Online Status: Offline Posts: 1049 |
Posted: 23 Sep 2014 at 7:01am |
i think most would say 2400
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Jon & Pam
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Tars Tarkas
Senior Member Joined: 14 Jan 2013 Location: Near Nashville Online Status: Offline Posts: 1447 |
Posted: 23 Sep 2014 at 8:26am |
2400 min. A 3000 might be better. I recently had a problem starting my air con with a 2400. I think that will easily be resolved with a hard start capacitor for under $20. Or you can go with 2 2000w generators and hook them together for 4000w
when necessary. I don't see the attraction in hauling 2 generators
around though, unless you have plenty of space. I guess lifting 2 x 2k generators one at a time is easier than lifting one 3k or 4k generator.
If you are going to be camping around other people you should strongly consider a Yamaha or a Honda. Those are much quieter, but also more expensive. TT |
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techntrek
Admin Group - pHp Joined: 29 Jul 2009 Location: MD Online Status: Offline Posts: 9062 |
Posted: 23 Sep 2014 at 8:28am |
Podster - voltage drop. The thick jumper cables will allow for a much larger/faster charge than the little wires in the Bargman.
hogone - with 2 batteries in series or parallel, connect the jumper cables to the + on one and the - on the other. This is absolutely required if you have two 6 volt batteries in series unless you want to see just how big of an explosion a lead acid battery can make (trust me, it is a big explosion and you don't want to be there). For two 12 volt batteries it is good practice so both batteries get an equal charge. There are no stupid questions around here!
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Doug ~ '10 171 (2009-2015) ~ 2008 Salem ~ Pod instruction manual
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techntrek
Admin Group - pHp Joined: 29 Jul 2009 Location: MD Online Status: Offline Posts: 9062 |
Posted: 23 Sep 2014 at 8:34am |
+ 1 on all of this. While it is impossible to lift my Honda 3000 watt genset by myself... neither can a thief. I do miss the ability to lift the Yamaha 2400 watt genset that I had before, but I worried more about it walking away.
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Doug ~ '10 171 (2009-2015) ~ 2008 Salem ~ Pod instruction manual
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hogone
Senior Member Joined: 09 Apr 2013 Location: St. Louis Online Status: Offline Posts: 1049 |
Posted: 23 Sep 2014 at 8:47am |
thanks, I have (2) 12 volt batteries, so will hook up pos to one battery and neg to the other battery. not sure if it will be necessary, but good to know if needed.
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Jon & Pam
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Podster
Senior Member Joined: 16 Sep 2014 Location: San Antonio Online Status: Offline Posts: 1108 |
Posted: 23 Sep 2014 at 9:33am |
If you do speed charge them don't forget they may be gassing hydrogen so be careful with sparks and other ignition sources. You may want to connect/disconnect at the TV.
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