Alternator amps and dc charger

[vintagescubaman]

Hi everyone

 

I want to fit an alternator to battery charger, I currently have a twin alternator set up, but do not know their output. Is their an easy way to test the amps? otherwise is it acceptable to fit a charger with the highest available amperage rating? Presumeably if one was fitted with a lower rating than the alternator output it would burn out.

[Arnot]

Hi everyone

 

I want to fit an alternator to battery charger, I currently have a twin alternator set up, but do not know their output. Is their an easy way to test the amps? otherwise is it acceptable to fit a charger with the highest available amperage rating? Presumeably if one was fitted with a lower rating than the alternator output it would burn out.

Are you referring to the Sterling gizmo?

 

Regards

 

Arnot

[Gibbo]

My first chance ......................

 

Yes you can fit the biggest one without knowing the size of the alternators. It will be fine.

 

However, for less money you can fit a SmartGauge and SmartBank Advanced which will achieve the same thing plus a thousand other things plus battery monitoring and do it better.

 

I have no commercial interest whatsoever in the SmartGauge other than as a happy ex designer.

 

Is that fair?

 

Edited November 7, 2009 by Gibbo

[Sir Nibble]

My first chance ......................

 

Yes you can fit the biggest one without knowing the size of the alternators. It will be fine.

 

However, for less money you can fit a SmartGauge and SmartBank Advanced which will achieve the same thing plus a thousand other things plus battery monitoring and do it better.

 

I have no commercial interest whatsoever in the SmartGauge other than as a happy ex designer.

 

Is that fair?

 

Also cleans a big, big carpet, for less than half a crown.

(Mmmmm! Smart products. I never eat anything else.)

[steelaway]

Hi everyone

 

I want to fit an alternator to battery charger, I currently have a twin alternator set up, but do not know their output. Is their an easy way to test the amps? otherwise is it acceptable to fit a charger with the highest available amperage rating? Presumeably if one was fitted with a lower rating than the alternator output it would burn out.

 

 

Hi

 

If you can tell us which engine you have I am sure we will be able to tell you which alternators are likely to be fitted.

 

Alex

[Gibbo]

Also cleans a big, big carpet, for less than half a crown.

(Mmmmm! Smart products. I never eat anything else.)

 

Both those posts kinda sound like Dick Van Dyke selling his hair cutting service at the circus.

[denboy]

My first chance ......................

 

Yes you can fit the biggest one without knowing the size of the alternators. It will be fine.

 

However, for less money you can fit a SmartGauge and SmartBank Advanced which will achieve the same thing plus a thousand other things plus battery monitoring and do it better.

 

I have no commercial interest whatsoever in the SmartGauge other than as a happy ex designer.

 

Is that fair?

 

 

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[Gibbo]

commission and bonuses now then

 

 

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Edited November 7, 2009 by Gibbo

[Big COL]

 

I'm an engineer. I get sat in a cellar, told what to do, I do it. If I'm lucky I get pulled up out of the cellar now and again, walked around for ten minutes then thrown back in the dudgeon. Occasionally I get given some water

 

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[vintagescubaman]

Hi

 

If you can tell us which engine you have I am sure we will be able to tell you which alternators are likely to be fitted.

 

Alex

 

My engine is a Lister HA2