Timeline for Dual battery setup
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| Sep 16, 2021 at 17:53 | comment | added | CCTO | This is common enough for vehicles with a large "house" or "hotel" load, such as RVs or yachts, where you want to be able to run anything from a ham radio to a microwave without risking draining your starting battery. Typically the house battery is a deep-cycle type which can tolerate being deeply drained without damage, which the starter battery is not. | |
| Feb 1, 2021 at 21:27 | vote | accept | David P. | ||
| Apr 17, 2020 at 7:10 | answer | added | vu2nan | timeline score: 1 | |
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| Apr 4, 2018 at 16:55 | comment | added | David P. | @ToniHomedesiSaun how could I do that? Looks like a nice feature to keep my alternator happy. (Please don't say 555 ahaha) | |
| Apr 4, 2018 at 16:36 | history | edited | David P. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 4, 2018 at 13:51 | comment | added | Toni Homedes i Saun | Would also bee good to add a small delay (one or two minutes) between engine start and paralleling the batteries. After the engine start the main battery will take a lot of current to recover from the effort. The alternator suffers. If yo add the second battery just then the alternator will suffer even more. Wait a minute and the main battery will already be "calm". In modern cars the main controller will raise/lower the alternator voltage to compensate for this. Check yours with a voltmeter => 14.5 for some time after engine start then down to 13.8 | |
| Apr 4, 2018 at 12:55 | comment | added | Vladimir Cravero | It is not clear to me why would you need two batteries. Is for backup? Do you want to double/increase the capacity? Please clarify. | |
| Apr 4, 2018 at 11:59 | answer | added | Solar Mike | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 4, 2018 at 11:35 | history | asked | David P. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |