[RE-wrenches] Generator brains

[Allan Sindelar]

(Accidentally hit send before finished)

A few years ago we addressed this on a Kohler 11RES installation. We put a 20w module and controller on the starting battery for the control load. The other loads - carb heater and something else I don't recall - ran off the inverter's AC, but with a manual spring-wound timer at the gennie. That way the heater load only runs when needed to prepare for a cold-weather start. Works well. 

Allan, Sindelar Solar

> On Jul 16, 2015, at 8:03 AM, "frenergy" <frenergy at psln.com> wrote:
> 
> Wrenches,
> 
>       We recently discussed the significant load the brains of  many gensets requires, especially in off-grid.  I have been trying to keep the start battery and brains of a Kohler 14KW gen charged with a ~40 PV.  This works fine until the winter.
> 
>       Any issues with keeping that PV connected (with its charge controller) and re-connecting the supplied-by-Kohler power source connection to keep the battery and brains happy?  I would like to think the PV would take some of the load off the AC connection to the main off-grid system, with no conflicts.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Bill
> Feather River Solar Electric 
> 
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