[RE-wrenches] Gen start

[William Miller]

Daryl:

I try to avoid starting a generator in the early morning hours if 
possible.  It is wasteful to have a generator start at 6:00 am, for 
example, and run until 10:00 AM, charging the batteries on a sunny day when 
if left alone, they would charge from the solar.  This is one of the 
benefits to be derived from an integrated AGS.  I set the "quiet time" to 
end at noon.  That way, if the battery level is low but not so low as to be 
at the LBCO, the generator start is forestalled.

I still think you are treating a symptom and not the actual cause of the 
problem.  There are hundreds, if not thousands of Outback AGS systems out 
there that seem very reliable...

William Miller



At 11:48 AM 2/27/2012, you wrote:
>This is a perfect situation for a
>simple, analog type gen start module that can simply start the genny when
>the batteries truly get low (rarely) and run for four or five hours until
>the sun rises again.