Inverter Guide: Part 2: Electricity, batteries, alternators

[chessinfantry]

ha..."like" ...good videos

[MrJetjoe]

this guy is a dumbass

[Charles2337]

You can also look at it like plumbing. Voltage is like the water pressure, Amperage is like the amount of water flowing through the pipe per second, and Watts is the power of that water flowing; the potential work it can do. Watts is sort of like horsepower.

[drakon32]

Great job. Thanks for sharing.

[W1LDWESLEY]

the trouble is the drag these alternatores put on the engine. more power cost more gas. and thanks for the info. id like to see you build a windmill out of an average alternatore.

[suloch]

Excellent. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. I really appreciate.

[raz0r699]

Extremely helpful.

This kind of information is hard to find.

Thumbs up! I subscribed. Keep the videos coming.

I'm interested in adding extra alternators to my old dodge van with extra batteries to run a powerful amp and my power converter. Do you know how I would go about putting a switch between the battery and devices? Would I just break the ground? I heard you can't put a switch on the positive. I don't want these devices constantly sucking power.

[MovingUpp]

boy I'm late getting back to you. If I understand you correctly, you can get a high amperage dc switch or switching circuit breaker.

Some switches are suitable for DC and AC, but make sure it specs that it's suitable for DC.

that's what I did for the amp in my car.

I'm sure it's better for the electronics to put a switch on the negative, but my little 600w amp is fine, and I've been running it for over a year now.

[raz0r699]

haha yeah. very late but no worries. I actually don't even have that vehicle anymore but the information would be useful in the future.

[digitalfuk]

@MovingUpp YOU NEVER WOULD EVER PUT A SWITCH ON AN ALTERNATOR CAUSE THE MAGNETIC FIELD GENERATED BY THE ALTERNATOR WOULD COLLAPSE BACK INTO ITSELF AND CAUSE A LARGE BACKWARDS FLOW OF CURRENT INTO THE ALTERNATORS DIODE PACK AND DESTROY IT.

[digitalfuk]

@raz0r699 THEY DONT USE ENGINE POWER UNLESS CALLED UPON BY THE LOW BATTERY TO PRODUCE POWER/CURRENT.

[raz0r699]

@digitalfuk Thanks.