I have recently purchased a Hunter Legend 450 Passage. The diesel engine is only charging the starter battery, not the domestic batteries. These charge through a battery charger when we have mains electric or the diesel generator. Am I missing something? Can I add a router switch to the system so that once the starter battery is charged it switches to the domestic batteries? Any advice would be very welcome. Thanks, Andrew
Charging domestic batteries Hunter Legend 450
- Thread starter A R Waterman
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Could you help us to help you a bit more, please? A basic description of your electrical system would be helpful. Do you have a basic 1-2-B switch or a number of individual switches for the house and start banks? Do you know if there is a battery combiner or other VSR (voltage sensing relay) installed? Where does the alternator output wire feed?
If your 450 is like my 410; you need to have the inverter switch selected to the batteries you want to charge
Thanks for for reply.
The boats system is 12 volt. The mains voltage in Spain is 230 volts. Our appliances are English ie 240 volts, but all work well when we are plugged in to the Spanish mains.
Thanks for taking the time to respond to my question. I have 2x 190AH domestic batteries under the sofa in the saloon. Bythebatteries there is a "Hunter inverter draw selector" with a 1,2, Both selector switch. Under the selector switch there are two on/off switches labelled panel 1 and panel 2.
The batteries are charged by a Sterling Power Products Advanced Digital 4 step mode battery charger.
Stu thanks for your interest,
I have 2x 190AH domestic batteries under the sofa. There is a Hunter inverter draw selector with 1,2 both positions. The batteries are charged by a Sterling Power Products Advanced Digital 4 step switch mode battery charger. The engine battery is above the engine room and seems to be completely seperate.
The inverter selector switch determines which batteries get lined up to either charge or supply the inverter. That has to be selected to the batteries you want to charge.
The 2 on/off switches are the supply to the main DC panel.
You should go to the model info site here and see if there is a copy of your boats owner manual and download it.
Makes sense, I was just wondering if the boat had been refitted to run dual voltage (12V and 24V) systems. Being that your installation seems to be OEM, I would concur with Don Lucas recommendation that you procure the boat owner's manual and get familiar with the use of the system as designed. Once you realize its virtues and shortcomings then you can start making changes to suit your specific needs.
This should be straight forward
Firstly, as suggested go to the hunter site where the manuals are located
Charging the batteries from the engine has nothing to do with your inverter. The inverter converts 12v to 120vac (or 220)
On your boat you will likely have a VSR relay which shunts the house to the engine start.
I assume the house batteries are charging fine from the battery charger, or you would have mentioned that.
Is the engine battery charging when the shore charger is running? I suspect not. If I am correct, then the VSR is likely defective