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My backup generator for my house is a 6HP slow speed diesel spinning a simple 5KW generator head via belt drive. It will hold 3KW all day long at 3/8GPH… that gets me all my lights, reefer and well pump. Can run a stove burner or the microwave or an air fryer. Direct Electric hotwater is off...

Yea on about a half dozzen trucks…:)

Well 2HP per KW for continuous power generation is a pretty good rule of thumb… 570A@28V is 15,960W. Nearly 16KW. Well thats too much for that engine at full load, and enough power to power 2 houses? You could charge EVs in the campground:)

70A@24v is 1960W. It looks like the plan for this is as a supplement to onboard solar and that is probably a comparable amount of power to what is on the roof. if sized correctly, the solar should meet all the typical needs, so this would most likely rarely be called for… Best practice is is...

Then you could tune this to whatever power you have available to feed it…

So you should have the same alt mount as I pictured above. fairly easily modified to accept a J180 type alternator. as Matthew pictured, your charge controller may have voltage controls but it may also have amperage controls as well. For what you described, a large house battery you really...

Naw, that was from Indie’s Bullwhip…:)

I agree, sounds like it is probably a blockage/restriction. The line from the PCU comes down to a T behind the transmission and splits to feed the input of the front and rear axle QRVs The QRVs are simply remote pressure requlators. Using a sliding core like a 2way check valve, They match...

yea the issues arise trying to feed a series battery bank with multiple alternators. An alt knows one thing, make regulated voltage untill the load is so great it cannot. Without intelligent control they do not load share and will never balance. In fact the one way the two alternators will...

Well the alt choice depends entirely on your load. If you have dropped to 2 service batteries you will have some surplus typically As the truck loads including all the lighting, are going to be under 30A @24v. So a 110A delco 28SI would have 80A available once the service batteries are peaked...

First 3d print:)

Oh very cool! Just brought home my first 3d printer last night, so this might be the first thing I print with it:) thanks.

If it is weatherproof, it can also take the place of the PPD/LBCD, which is also an easy place to wire it in.

The inner shaft brakes the 3rd planetary sun gear using the p6 clutch at the rear, to get us that low 1st gear. The outer extension shaft driven by the 3rd planetary in the trans slides thru and drives the top gear of the transfer gearbox.

The balancers are waterproof typically most of the 24-12 converters are not. Pitting the 24-12 in the dash makes the wiring dead simple as that is where the 12 v goes anyway… only reason to put it in the box is if you are using a “balancer(output exactly 1/2 of input)…

There are actually 2 shafts, one inside the other. The inner shaft engages the P6 clutch under the rear cover plate. I believe the transfer case slides over that extension shaft, so must be unbolted from the front of the extension housing… i seem to recall a sneaky(hidden) bolt in there...

Well there was someone selling a “double alt” once upon a time, no support and not well built… it was basically 2 alternators connected end to end. I have seen one using a custom mount that used two common alternators side by side, which kinda shorts one of them for belt-pully contact area…...

The exploded diagrams in the parts manual(24P) might be of assistance here…

well every other truck has the PTO on the drivers side Along with all the other stuff… Not sure if the scavenger pump and its mount is symmetrical enough to be just flipped over the top(to maintain same direction of rotation). Then you would have to figure out how to plumb from the suction...

Don’t forget the double-tap…:)