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Carver 370 Voyager battery setup
- LaBomba
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Carver 370 Voyager battery setup
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Re: Carver 370 Voyager battery setup
From that point it is easy to create banks you can control.....good hunting..
- 4mo
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Re: Carver 370 Voyager battery setup
I just replaced 2 of the 27's with 4 golf carts keeping the 27's as a separate charging bank. They will be connected via ACR for combined charging but I'm not sure where the electrician that helped put the alternator wires.
I do know that the alternator wires are pretty easy to follow as they go from the alternators along the engine room toward the battery area. You can see the bottom of the 1-2-all switch from engine room and the power wires feed through the wall to the battery compartment.
I might be installing the ACR this weekend and will check if I do.
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Re: Carver 370 Voyager battery setup
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- LaBomba
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Re: Carver 370 Voyager battery setup
4mo wrote:Source of the post On my 1996 370 it was set up as: #1 bank (2 group 27's) #2 bank (2 group 27's).
I just replaced 2 of the 27's with 4 golf carts keeping the 27's as a separate charging bank. They will be connected via ACR for combined charging but I'm not sure where the electrician that helped put the alternator wires.
I do know that the alternator wires are pretty easy to follow as they go from the alternators along the engine room toward the battery area. You can see the bottom of the 1-2-all switch from engine room and the power wires feed through the wall to the battery compartment.
I might be installing the ACR this weekend and will check if I do.
Thanks 4mo, it would appear that our 97 has the same setup. I did find the owners manual as well which describes the setup in detail. I can't say that it makes any sense to have house loads and engine start off the same batteries even with two banks. It may be fine for dock queens but for anyone on the hook a fair amount it is just not adequate. Looks like another project
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Re: Carver 370 Voyager battery setup
I'm pretty sure with Century plastics' 4 GC battery box you could actually fit 8 golf cart batteries along with a group 31 battery. We took the incremental step of going to 4 GCs and adding a victron battery monitor to give us the state of charge for the house bank. We'll be keeping the starting bank totally separate and charge both via the ACR, so no need to keep an eye on the the starting bank SOC.
I also changed out all the lights to LEDs off of amazon for something like $30.
Still haven't made it over to install the ACR yet. Waiting for another part so I can also finish replacing the starboard fuel pump
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Re: Carver 370 Voyager battery setup
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Re: Carver 370 Voyager battery setup
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Re: Carver 370 Voyager battery setup
If you return to stock wiring, your genny needs a 24 at the most, a garden tractor battery at least. It is a 2 cylinder honda motor. Not sure why they use 31's for this. Way overkill.
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