Stirling Alternator Faulty?

[madcat]

That ammeter is a standard automotive one with no shunt. All the output of the alternator passing through it on its way to the batteries .

Once you start running an inverter that's a lot of current through it which the system wasn't designed to cope with .

 

 

The alternator was an A127 probably 60 amp max but not delivering anything like that due to the pulley ratio. The HA would have been fitted with a dynamo when new which don't appreciate being twirled at high speeds .

 

It's probably time to upgrade the charging system to cope with the demands of commercial operation . Otherwise a diesel generator would solve the problem and there's likely to be somewhere in the hold it would fit .

 

ditch crawler , the ammeter was only reading charging current . The whole set up was very basic.

Edited December 23, 2015 by madcat

[madcat]

I'm beginning to wonder if the ammeter was the start of the problem but there are other usual suspects .

 

I've no idea how the inverter is wired but I'd expect it to be straight off the cabin batteries through a fuse and its own isolator.

[ditchcrawler]

I'm beginning to wonder if the ammeter was the start of the problem but there are other usual suspects .

I wondered that as well