Using a genny for the 1st time

The safest way I see is to connect the gennie to the battrey via a decent battery charger using the 240 volt side of it.

I have a battery system set up at my place in the Mallee. Basically I have 2 deep cycle batteries in parallel & a small gennie. Connected to this is an 240V inverter, my Engel fridge & a smart charger.

I start the gennie every 2 days & run it in the afternoon until the batteries are charged. This takes round about 4 to 5 hrs to bring everything up to full charge. I do not disconnect anything from the circuit while the gennie is running & I have not damaged anything yet. By the way I run the Engel on the 12 volt circuit not the 240V.

You will find that the time taken to run the batteries down varies because the loading on the fridge will change due to ambient temps & how often you restock it. Sorry but I cannot help you with the Amp draw on the CPAP machine but the Engel draws 3.5 amps when the compressor runs but like I said the run time will vary.

Cheers
Stu

i run a 80 ltr fridge and my wifes CPAP machine dont just hook the genset to the batteries as most genset arent reg use a good battery charger. i run mine for about one hour a day to keep battery top up (12amp charger with 100amp battery)

Hi Wato

Is it a 12V generator like our petrol charger or is it a 240V generator that needs a battery charger connected to it ?

We need the specs of these units to give you an idea of charge times etc.

Regards

Derek from ABR