Does anyone know if 1977 Kohler 7.5 kW gen set has internal means for charging its own battery?
Reason I ask: Since we purchased boat in 2008 a relatively small [16" x 36"] solar panel has always been on fly bridge face and hooked up to the gen set batt; which also powers the windless and forward toilet. Never before seemed to have lack of batt amps/volts... whenever gen set or other two items are used. That said... this Memorial Day weekend the gen set's G27 starter batt was dead [11.3 on multi meter]. I found that negative lead from solar panel had somehow been broken off at batt terminal. The dead batt is only 1 year old. We'd run the gen set a while ago... and... I had then noticed that the batt was sluggish regarding starter action.
Luckily, I always keep a G27 batt in isolated batt box and fully charged for if such a need might arise. We were back up and running in no time flat... with solar panel again well connected to battery.
Just wondering if the gen set can keep it's own batt charged or if for the last 9 years it's the solar panel only that has been maintaining batt charge level.
BTW: The batt on gen set before the 1 yr old one that was dead this past weekend was over 10 yrs old before it failed. And, yes, that 10 year old batt had always stayed correctly hooked to the solar panel.
Happy Generator-Battery Daze! - Art
Reason I ask: Since we purchased boat in 2008 a relatively small [16" x 36"] solar panel has always been on fly bridge face and hooked up to the gen set batt; which also powers the windless and forward toilet. Never before seemed to have lack of batt amps/volts... whenever gen set or other two items are used. That said... this Memorial Day weekend the gen set's G27 starter batt was dead [11.3 on multi meter]. I found that negative lead from solar panel had somehow been broken off at batt terminal. The dead batt is only 1 year old. We'd run the gen set a while ago... and... I had then noticed that the batt was sluggish regarding starter action.
Luckily, I always keep a G27 batt in isolated batt box and fully charged for if such a need might arise. We were back up and running in no time flat... with solar panel again well connected to battery.
Just wondering if the gen set can keep it's own batt charged or if for the last 9 years it's the solar panel only that has been maintaining batt charge level.
BTW: The batt on gen set before the 1 yr old one that was dead this past weekend was over 10 yrs old before it failed. And, yes, that 10 year old batt had always stayed correctly hooked to the solar panel.
Happy Generator-Battery Daze! - Art