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Oh, anything over 1,000 rpm, I suppose, but wanted something near 1,200, which wasn't to noisy and the ratchet on the throttle control was either 900 or 1,400-1,500...like I said no biggie.
Not the deuce, but could be. The 8x8 is equipped with two fuel burning heaters and if they run on the start batteries without the engine then they would not be able to crank it after some time, so the idea of "house" batteries came to be.
The number one reason is the speed of recharge, compare less than an hour to several hours at best for LA types and I wanted to use the full capability of the 100 amp generator on the truck. I'm replacing the 80 amp gauge seen in the images above with an 150-amp meter, since the generator frequently puts out 100 amps during charging, pegging the needle.
Yes, and most of them revolve around their being lighter than lead acid batteries. Wet cell Nicads make dandy house batteries.
Don't know about being much lighter, a 19-cell 24 volt NiCd battery weighs 83 lb (BB-693A) with an AH capacity of 30.
Hmm? That surely isn't lighter. I used to have 12V packs made up of wet NiCad's from surplus airplane starter packs, and I am sure that they were lighter. They weren't marked for A-H capacity (that I recall), but ten of them were physically similar in size to a normal automotive start battery. The big problem with starter service is they lost most of their capacity when they got hot.... great in the frozen north, though.
He sent me a PM and his help is much appreciated.
