after all the time I have spent on the boat over the past year and a half, converting all the lights to LED, repairing other peoples wiring FUBAR's, replacing all the batteries and many other necessary and unnecessary tasks, this weekend I learned my engine does NOT charge the house bank... unless the "dual circuit plus" combiner switch is combined....
what I have is...
....an ARS-5 charge regulator wired into the alternator circuit...
....a bluesea ACR to isolate the banks....
....a promariner dual circuit shore power charger with both outputs going directly to the house bank.
so im assuming my alternator output should be connected to the same spot where my shore power charger is connected to, and not directly to the start battery.... but at this time I do NOT know if the shore power charges the start battery or not... I am assuming it should charge the start batt thru the ACR, but this is not confirmed.. and I have not found a good diagram of how it should be properly wired so that I can trace to wires to find out where the issue actually is..
can anyone show me either a diagram or explain it to me... or are my assumptions correct in that all charging sources should be connected directly to the house bank and the blueseaACR will do the rest?...
what I have is...
....an ARS-5 charge regulator wired into the alternator circuit...
....a bluesea ACR to isolate the banks....
....a promariner dual circuit shore power charger with both outputs going directly to the house bank.
so im assuming my alternator output should be connected to the same spot where my shore power charger is connected to, and not directly to the start battery.... but at this time I do NOT know if the shore power charges the start battery or not... I am assuming it should charge the start batt thru the ACR, but this is not confirmed.. and I have not found a good diagram of how it should be properly wired so that I can trace to wires to find out where the issue actually is..
can anyone show me either a diagram or explain it to me... or are my assumptions correct in that all charging sources should be connected directly to the house bank and the blueseaACR will do the rest?...