battery charger

gid'ay bob
thats the one
cheers toohey

gid'ay paul
i have'nt seen the 4wd monthly mag for awhile;memory tells me just under $1000.
cheers toohey.

The Kipor 1KVA is only about $900

Would these be a better option???

thanks for the replies
i'm leaning towards the $900 fuel for the 3.0td genny
cheers toohey

$900, doesn't go very far on an engine rebuild. And no load high idle, on a diesel, is no good for it(Typicaly how people charge batteries rather than go for a drive). So if you keep your vehicles for awhile I would suggest another form of battery charger.

Tuff60 ,since when does idleing a diesel hurt ?? if that was the case then every truck driver is wrong to warm/air up and idle turbo down ,stuffs the motor ???????

I'm being lazy on this response so I'll copy/paste from other sites.

Under-loading of the engine will cause a high wear rate due to incomplete fuel combustion, loss of lubrication and slobber, resulting in cylinder bore glazing and fouling of exhaust ports and valves, along with insurmountable amounts of exhaust pollution. Proper and controlled loading is therefore essential. It increases diesel engine life by up to four times and improves the efficiency by ensuring that the engine has sufficient loading at all times.

"Engine Wear and Tear
Letting an engine idle actually does more damage to the engine than starting and stopping. Running an engine at low speed (idling) causes twice the wear on internal parts compared to driving at regular speeds, which can increase maintenance costs and shorten the life of the engine

Feel free to research it yourself, it's all about oil pressure and compression pressures, boring stuff. Newer trucks don't need warm up time at all, same as all newer cars and 4WD's(many won't believe that), turbo cool down is done for short periods after high engine loads, totally different from start up idle.
I'm sure if you read your cars manual it will have a section saying that no warm up idling is required, in Australian conditions.
And as for charging, most alternators put out bugger all amps at idle, therefore, the engine would be runnning a long time to put in a decent amount of charge. And increasing the revs with no load just causes more damage.

Tuff60 ,I repeat as stated above ," then every truck driver is wrong" ,, as for charging from altenator I would suggest you have yours checked ,if its not producing the same VOLTS at idle as it does at higher revs you have a dud ,the AMPS are controlled by the regulator [integral or external ] and by how much the battery will accept ,,,,,exactly the same as the christie generator produces 55amps at 14+ volts ,if your battery is already fully charged it wont accept any more amps but it will accept the volts.

"I would suggest you have yours checked ,if its not producing the same VOLTS at idle as it does at higher revs you have a dud"
You clearly know more than me, but please put a multi meter on your battery, load up the electrical system, ie high beams, A/C, fans and everything else and watch what it does when you bring up the revs.
Maybe you're right and it is a dud, oh well another one to send back to bosch.