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According to my speed calculator, you should be at 65 mph at 2500 rpm and 70mph at 2690 rpm.

Or use the battery power to spin the windmills to get extra speed.[thumbzup]

LOL! That's what I thought too.

Looks like I went home just when the party was getting going..... There were a lot of comments about how which alternator "knows" to charge which battery. In short, the alternators have NO idea what is attached. They simply try to maintain full output voltage until the internal impedance...

I torqued once per directions; it leaked. When it warms up and is time for an oil change I can retorque or try to find a rubber o-ring.

There are part numbers on the turbo pics that I posted but you have to move your mouse over the top for it to be displayed.

how an equalizer works vs how two alts work can be very different as the equalizer has the abilty to monitior both batteries and send power where it is needed at the same rate You keep assuming that the charging system has intelligence when it does not. If they have the save voltage, the...

Look at Figure 1 in the following link. Same concept as what I have suggested exept they have replaced the 12V alternator with a 12V DC-DC converter power supply. http://www.allbatterysalesandservice.com/graphics/52109-52204-52206-52208-52210.pdf Note especially: 5. Connect the 12V and 24V...

Be careful with low cost inverters. Their output is not galvanically isolated from the battery. If your third battery is grounded to the chasis and you connect the neutral to the chassis you'll let the magic smoke out.

here is the problem i see the chance of both batteries being equally discharged and charges by two separate alts is slim to none...first off the alts would have to able keep the batteries at exactly the same volts or it will fofce the 24 volt alt to over charge or under charge the second...

And yet you don't even know enough to BEGIN to argue why.

Why such resistance to opening your mind and thinking about problems and instead burying your heads in the sand?

Common automotive alternators are simple constant voltage sources (single stage charging). Each alternator simply trys to output it's set voltage 14, 28, etc. The charging rate depends on the battery state of charge, state of health, and the impedance of the alternator.

I am not sure that I understand your comment. Are you suggesting that power will flow back into the alternator? Aside fron a few nanoamps reverse current through the rectifiers, power will not flow back into the alternator.

No problem. Yours is a completely valid reason to keep them separate. You may want to invest in a battery like a Concorde AGM which is meant to be used that way. SLI batteries will not last long if deeply discharged. The point of my first post was simply that it doesn't HAVE to be that way.

That was clearly beyond the capability of 14 VDC. Way beyond 28VDC, too. :razz: