In article o.uk, Dave
Liquorice scribeth thus
On Fri, 7 Aug 2015 10:02:06 +0100, tony sayer wrote:

We have a genset thats almost under the same conditions, thats to say
lives outside in a sort of outhouse. We float charge the battery with a
13.8 volt power supply that IIRC delivers around 5 amps at most made
with a LT-1083 voltage regulator.

Any idea what current it sits at once charged? Need to balance enough
current to keep it charged against finger growth against "cooking".


Don't know. Just set it to 13.8 volts and leave it at that they work
fine and we've been making them and doing that for some 15 odd years now
and never had a problem. The current is limited by the size of the reg
they come in three sizes we just use the 7.5 Amp ones....


We made up a very effective auto-start and changeover system using these
modules ....

Until I knock a hole in the garage wall and connect a pipe to the
"silencer" outlet autostart/change over isn't required. It's also
only a 2 kVA generator, enough for fridges/freezers/heating but not
the kettle!

http://www.gencontrol.co.uk/

What poor site to navigate. Left menu drop down drops down over the
menu. Pages with multiple products on don't tell you the basics of
what a given product is. Not even something like "Autostart
controller, 20 kVA, single phase".


Yes not that good but no worse than a lot of others, but very good and
well thought out units all the same...


The one we have looks at the Oil pressure light and when thats off it
knows the genny is running but if it came on while the genny is running
it shuts it down and tells you it has a a fault condition etc plus its
programmable for such as start attempts and lots of other useful
features...
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Tony Sayer