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- From: jeff.masterman@cutting.hou.tx.us (Jeff Masterman)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Electrical Question: Mult
- Message-ID: <5133.77.uupcb@cutting.hou.tx.us>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 16:44:00 GMT
- Reply-To: jeff.masterman@cutting.hou.tx.us (Jeff Masterman)
- Organization: The Cutting Edge - Houston, TX - 713-466-1525
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- AES>Proposal: Install a heavy-duty (marine?) battery for the radio, plus
- AES>an AB switch. Drive to the site on the regular battery, then switch
- AES>to the heavy-duty backup. When it's time to drive home, switch back
- AES>to the regular battery, start the truck, and drive home. Recharge the
- AES>heavy-duty battery either with a 110 V trickle charger at home, or by
- AES>switching back to it after the engine is started.
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- AES>Any pitfalls in this? Will the truck's regular alternator and voltage
- AES>regular (12 V) be able to charge the heavy-duty battery also without
- AES>damage? Are there other ways to do this?
- There is a device called a battery isloator that is fairly inexpensive
- and would not require any operator input (or mistakes). It seperates the
- batteries during discharge but connects them during the charge cycle.
- It is basically a heavy duty diode. I have seen plenty of them work.
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