(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" <frene...@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 > > _______________________________________________ > List sponsored by Redwood Alliance > > List Address: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org > > Change listserver email address & settings: > http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org > > List-Archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org/maillist.html > > List rules & etiquette: > www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm > > Check out or update participant bios: > www.members.re-wrenches.org > _______________________________________________ List sponsored by Redwood Alliance List Address: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org Change listserver email address & settings: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List-Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org/maillist.html List rules & etiquette: www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm Check out or update participant bios: www.members.re-wrenches.org
