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It is good practice to have the shore power ac sockets on a seperate circuit to the inverter circuit then if the shore power drops out,card runs out, you then wont run the battery's flat by the inverta wich will switch over automatically without you being aware of shore power dropping out, sod's law will make this happen at night. and of cause then the two can't interact and implode accidently . John

Thank you Vanessan, yes. John

Hi Robin All battery banks should only be wired as your option two, if you wire as in option one you only use the first battery which will have a shorter life. if four or more batteries are used as one bank there is another way of connecting them it is as option two but doubled, i have a diagram filled some where, by having the pos and neg leads on different batteries make them work as one there for more capacity and longer life your inverta should have a seperate on/off switch otherwise it will use a small amount of current to power it self,don't use any electrical equipment that has diode lights on it they will burnout you can only use analog on quasi inverters you need a pure sine wave inverter for diode equipmentor or any equipment that has a thyristor control ie more up market microwaves and dvd players. Oh and a microwave uses twice the power that its rated for .John

There are two ways to alter charging rate of a alternator one you solder a wire to brush box before regulator this would invalidate your warranty if any. cant be done on some later alternators or 2nd way is to run + cable to a box that fools regulator into charging its maximum,Sterling do one that you can connect two alternators together for even more power,this does not invalidate any warranty as it doesn't interfere with unit,it's also very easy to connect no soldering or removable of unit Bth units check temp of battery bank and adjust charging accordingly to not overheat batteries they also adjust charging rate for different types of battery, you can reduce topping up of cells by using the next lower charing rate. The rule of thumb is one v belt will run max 43 amps one serrated belt will run 65 amps twin belts which have to be matched pair 75 amps single flat ribbed starts with five groves 120 amps 7 or more groves 200 amps, to much tension on belt will wear front crank pulley. John

Goodchilds is F A M E free ie no bio less chance of diesel bug John

CrisB I would like to purchase the 10kg mud weight please John