From: Neil E. Amrhein (neil@compu-powr.com)
Date: Mon Apr 14 2003 - 07:35:49 PDT
Ron,
Do you mean why does the front battery drain more rapidly than the rear
under normal conditions? Or, are you trying to determine why it drains
faster (or, actually, at all) when your truck sits without being run. The
latter, of course, should not happen.
Under normal conditions (everything working as it was intended), the
front battery supplies all of the 12V load (taillights, stoplights,
headlights, heater fan, etc...) to the truck. This is what causes it to
drain more rapidly than the other and very rapidly when there is no
recharge. There is a medium gauge red wire that comes from the negative post
of the rear battery and runs over to the 12V block on the driver's side
firewall (near the glow plug relay). This is where the 12V loads are tapped
from (and where the "orange wiring mod" went to).
Is that what you are asking (i.e. - does that help)?
--Neil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ronzo" <rojoha@attbi.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] M1010 Electrical MWO PART 2
> Additional......
>
> Also, the 24 volt Solargizer is placed across the two batteries. This
would
> not solve the problem. The Duvac mod was to cure the front battery not
being
> charged enough, causing the front battery being replaced more frequently
> than the back one. The original system was supposedly set up for the Upper
> Alternator to charge the front battery and the Lower Alternator to charge
> both .
> The Duvac mod causes the Upper Alternator to be disconnected (?) while
> the Lower one takes over total charging of the system with the Duvac
taking
> the output of the Lower Alternator and feeding 12 volts to the front
> battery and 24 across both, providing for the 12 volts for the rear
one....
>
> What I am trying to find out is why the front battery discharges more
> rapidly than the back one....all loads appear to be feed from the 24 volt
> bus strip.
> I've checked the archives to see if this explanation has been posted
> before with no joy.
>
> Ronzo
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stu Ellis" <stuellis@attbi.com>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 9:50 AM
> Subject: Re: [MV] M1010 Electrical MWO
>
>
> > Why don't you just put 24v solargizer on it? I put them on my 2 MV's
and
> > they work great. Bought mine on Ebay.
> >
>
>
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