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The Eternal Alternator Choice Topic
After ten years of ownership and about 32+ STCs later (www.dukeairborninvestments.com) it is time for me to consider the 'generator upgrade to alternator' question.
After scanning all the SWPC and other websites and web-discussions my list of favourites looks like this:
1) PlanePower SAL 12-70 (70 amps capable)
2) B&C 60 amps with LR3C-14 regulator (nice battery temp probe)
3) InterAv (more expensive, more complicated wiring and external components required)
4) Denso (as per Andy's site and Homer Landreth)
I wanted to know:
- Has anybody got experience with the usefullness of the B&C temperature probe in the batterybox to prevent battery over-cooking? How bad can over-cooking be with an alternator, coming from an old Delco generator set up?
- Secondly, how simple can one keep the wiring diagram?
I was hoping to get away with a rocker-type circuit breaker next to my battery master (to switch on the field/alternator after
engine start-up) add the little voltage light on the panel. I was going to keep my old +/- 40 amps ammeter (never seen it go beyond 20 amps anyway flying >600 hours on it).
My current max load is probably still <35 amps (EVERYTHING ON...), later in life I could upgrade the cabling and CB to 60 amps to feed the main bus...
I also would like to avoid a battery master contactor (just another failure point and dead weight)
- Has anybody been through all this recently?
or maybe I should just a new solid state regulator and get on with my generator...
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