batteries in place of generator

[Ryan Wright]

On 12/18/07, Wilhelmus Schreurs wrote:
>
> Ryan:
> 1500 amp alternator?? are you sure.
> That would be huge, how would that fit inside the engine compartment?

Hah! I'm an idiot. I remembered wrong. I did some searching to find
whose coach I was thinking of. Turns out it's Jay Darst's, and I mixed
up amps and dollars in my poor excuse for a memory. It was a $1500,
320 amp alternator, not 1500 amps. I was right about remembering it
being hideously expensive, though.

From Jay's post earlier this year:

> we installed a $1,500 320amp alternator which provides sufficient
> power to the inverter to run an a/c unit.

OK, so yes, this is making more sense to me (and probably everyone else) now.

I still think Dorn would be money ahead to fix his genset. Going down
this road the numbers look like $1500 for an alternator, couple grand
worth of batteries, another grand worth of inverter, more for cables
and connectors to tie all that power together... Aren't we approaching
the price of a new Onan now?

-Ryan, going senile wayyyy too early.
'86 PT-40 8V92 (I think...)