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11-02-2012, 12:27 PM
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Olympia, Washington
Posts: 557
Year: 87
Coachwork: Wayne
Chassis: International s1700
Engine: 6.9 internatiional
Rated Cap: 65
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Marine battery selector switch
I picked up one of these. hopefully i can use it rather than a battery isolator. looks pretty sturdy too
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 1088951235
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11-02-2012, 10:09 PM
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Olympia, Washington
Posts: 557
Year: 87
Coachwork: Wayne
Chassis: International s1700
Engine: 6.9 internatiional
Rated Cap: 65
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Re: Marine battery selector switch
John,
i was thinking the same thing, good to jump the coach batteries with the house batteries in a pinch, and to control charging. i will post better pictures of it when it arrives
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11-10-2012, 10:22 PM
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Olympia, Washington
Posts: 557
Year: 87
Coachwork: Wayne
Chassis: International s1700
Engine: 6.9 internatiional
Rated Cap: 65
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Re: Marine battery selector switch
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11-11-2012, 09:44 AM
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Almost There
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Millstadt Illinois near St Louis MO
Posts: 89
Year: 1998
Coachwork: Crown
Chassis: International
Engine: DT466 / AT545
Rated Cap: 71
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Re: Marine battery selector switch
How would one hook this up in order to accomplish the
Quote:
Originally Posted by proconsul100
good to jump the coach batteries with the house batteries in a pinch, and to control charging.
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? I'm drawing a blank, may be too early, not enough coffee...
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11-11-2012, 10:46 AM
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Olympia, Washington
Posts: 557
Year: 87
Coachwork: Wayne
Chassis: International s1700
Engine: 6.9 internatiional
Rated Cap: 65
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Re: Marine battery selector switch
Quote:
Originally Posted by kimberlink
How would one hook this up in order to accomplish the
Quote:
Originally Posted by proconsul100
good to jump the coach batteries with the house batteries in a pinch, and to control charging.
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? I'm drawing a blank, may be too early, not enough coffee...
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just as to can tie cord and house batteries together for charging, you could use the house batteries to start if for some reason the coach batteries die. you could also choose to only charge house or only choose coach. prehaps this might help
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11-11-2012, 03:37 PM
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Cleburne TX
Posts: 692
Year: 2001
Chassis: International Amtran RE
Engine: DT466E/MD3060
Rated Cap: 78
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Re: Marine battery selector switch
Looks like a good switch. Ive seen them on there and always wondered how well they will work out. Im not there yet but let us know how they work out. Might be worth getting and sitting till im ready to install.
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11-12-2012, 01:19 AM
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Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: NUNYA
Posts: 4,236
Year: 1995
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: 3800
Engine: DT408, AT545
Rated Cap: 23 500 gvw
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Re: Marine battery selector switch
Quote:
Originally Posted by kimberlink
How would one hook this up in order to accomplish the
Quote:
Originally Posted by proconsul100
good to jump the coach batteries with the house batteries in a pinch, and to control charging.
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? I'm drawing a blank, may be too early, not enough coffee...
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You've got four settings. Say 1 is starting battery. 2 is your house batteries. 0 is off. 1+2 is both batteries. If you have a dead starting battery, you would switch from 1 to 1+2 and use both batteries to start your bus. I don't know if I explained that well enough. The reason for that switch on a boat is to always have a second battery as backup so you can get home.
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11-16-2012, 10:53 AM
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Austin, TX
Posts: 1,489
Year: 1996
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: International
Engine: DT466/AT545
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Re: Marine battery selector switch
I've been thinking of getting one of these as well. My intention would be to use my alternator to charge my house batteries while driving down the road. I assume if I set the switch to connect both sets of batteries (chassis and house) that the charge from the alternator would go equally to both sets of batteries? Or would the charge go first to the batteries with the lowest charge? I'm thinking I could get a gauge to monitor my chassis battery so I would only send the charge to the house batteries if I knew the chassis batteries were full. Am I making any sense at all?
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12-14-2012, 12:35 AM
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Mini-Skoolie
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: North Dakota
Posts: 26
Year: 1986
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: International S1800
Engine: DT466
Rated Cap: 77
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Re: Marine battery selector switch
I actually have the blue-sea systems "add a battery" kit. It includes a red rotary 3 position switch. The positions are "Off", "On", and "1+2", the latter being labelled Emergency. It bridges the starting batteries and the house batteries together.
http://bluesea.com/products/7650
The other component of the add-a-battery system is the isolating/combiner. When either side of the combiner is showing above 13.x volts, it combines the house and the vehicle systems so that whatever your charging source (engine, when underway, or shore/gen power when moored) is charging the whole vehicle.
Great system. I am super impressed with Blue Sea products. (I also have thier fuse block and one of their 225A fuses)
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06-04-2021, 05:36 AM
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New Member
Join Date: Jul 2019
Location: Bellingham WA
Posts: 1
Year: 2002
Chassis: 202905
Engine: 46095366
Rated Cap: 54
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It seems that the Battery selector switch with 3 or 4 functions
does the same function as a battery isolator kit, Is this true? Do I need just one or the other? or are both still helpful for all functions?
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06-04-2021, 09:59 AM
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#11
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Jun 2020
Location: Long Beach, CA
Posts: 1,075
Year: 1998
Coachwork: Blue Bird
Chassis: TC2000, 40' MPV
Engine: 5.9 Cummins/B300 trans
Rated Cap: U/K
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Quote:
Originally Posted by twotbgrar
It seems that the Battery selector switch with 3 or 4 functions
does the same function as a battery isolator kit, Is this true? Do I need just one or the other? or are both still helpful for all functions?
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This is a 9 year old thread. You should really start a new thread if you want pertinent information.
Anyways...welcome to the circus 😊
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