Gen battery charge

[George Burke]

Hello Jim, You have helped me in the past, and hope that I can repay the
favor. I have a 1977 FC31 with a Ford 534 Ci. On my dash is a button that
allows you to send juice to the house/ starting/ batteries, from the gen.
battery, in case those batteries are to discharged to start your rig. I have
been told that this switch does not work in reverse. Your gen. battery
stands alone. As some else mentioned,(if it exists on your BB), you may have
a bad isolator. Have you had the gen. battery checked, (as you may have a
bad cell). Even fairly new batterys have been known to have this problem. I
have heard of some people using trickle chargers in the gen compartment, but
I asked a previous owner of my bus,( he owned it for 10 yrs.), about this
practice and he said he never found it to be necessary, the gen batt. always
stayed charged. I have a gas Onan 6.5 KW, that has stayed mostly parked
since last Dec., and the gen has always started without any problems. Hope
this helps. G.Burke Charlotte
On 10/2/07, Jim Benson wrote:
>
> So much battery talk prompted my question. I have had my 74-FC-31
> plugged in for a week under the assumption that plugging in charges the
> batteries. Engine and house battery seem fine, just the generator
> battery continues to lose charge to almost dead. I did remove and
> charge the battery, but what could i do to keep to it that way?
> thanks for the help.
>
> Jim
> 74-FC-31
> MAI TAI FINE
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