[C320-list] Battery Charging w/Onboard Charger

[Robert Seastream]

What type fuse does the pro mariner use, or can you provide a physical  
pix of it?

Bob Seastream
Intuition # 906

On Jul 27, 2008, at 3:59 PM, Amirault Family - S&B wrote:

> Finally did get the generator to the boat earlier this day. T-storms
> expected so the plan was to do some cockpit gel coat repair while the
> generator charged the batteries. No such luck!
>
>
>
> Generator started, AC was created and AC powered cabin fans operated,
> ProMariner 30-3 showed red charging light on but no amps being  
> produced;
> which was confirmed by the battery meter. As the main concern was  
> the gel
> coat, that was dealt with and when completed I went back to the  
> charger
> problem.
>
>
>
> The MANUAL contains a trouble shooting decision diagram which  
> directed me to
> the examination of the charger's internal fuse. Access to this only  
> required
> the emptying of the cockpit locker and appropriate contortions to  
> remove the
> six screws on the bottom of the charger. One then does find a 40 amp  
> fuse
> that was blown. The largest available at Canadian Tire was 30 amp  
> and I
> replaced it with this as the generator produces less than 15. With  
> the new
> fuse in place things actually worked!
>
>
>
> The charger charges both banks regardless of the position of the  
> battery
> switch. Initially the charger was producing something around 12 amps  
> with
> the charge lamp red which was no surprise as the generator produces  
> around
> 13 amps. This quickly dropped to three amps (I assume that this  
> represents
> the power production of the charger switching to a different stage).  
> The
> battery meter was still showing healthy charging on both batteries  
> at this
> lower output. The documentation states that there will come a time  
> when the
> charger will show a green light as the batteries come to full  
> charge, but I
> never saw this as with the sky darkening I put the toys away.
>
>
>
> The generator has proven to be all that the list claimed of it.
>
>
>
> Now, with Canadian Tire not a source for 40 amp fuses, where should  
> I be
> looking to find these so that I can bring the charger back to  
> specification?
>
>
>
>
> Brian Amirault
>
> 797 Waltzing Bear, too
>