baldpaul
Veteran Member
I need some help. When off the power grid, my generator does not seem to be charging my batteries very well. I have an 8 golf cart bank for my house with a xantrex inverter, 12.5kw Westerbeke generator and a battery charger. When on my battery bank, I have 920 Amp hours and go through about 20 per hour. But, when I run my generator to recharge for a few hours a day, it seems to put about 110 a/h into the system for about 10 minutes according to my inverter monitor, but then drops to 10-12. So, over the course of a few days my batteries slowly die. When I plug into shore power my inverter reads 110 a/h until the batteries get back to full charge. So, my question is do I have a problem? If so, what is the likely culprit....charger, inverter, batteries,generator? When running, my generator powers my boat with no problems.
Any comments welcomed.
Any comments welcomed.