hwse
Solar Enthusiast
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The inverter / generator like a Honda EU200i has a gas engine that turns a DC alternator which creates DC power. It then runs that power through an invertor to produce 120vAC.
I have two of these generators, one of which is only use on my boat to charge by batteries through the Victron shore power charger.
The other one is an emergency backup that hasn't been used in 4-years.
On my boat, I burn dinosaur squeezing's to make AC power that is rectified to make DC that is then inverted to make AC so that I can transform it into DC. Seems rather wasteful to me.
That got me to wondering if I could modify one of them to just take the DC output before it goes to the inverter and sent it to my boats battery bank and skip the back half of the conversion nightmare.
I have two of these generators, one of which is only use on my boat to charge by batteries through the Victron shore power charger.
The other one is an emergency backup that hasn't been used in 4-years.
On my boat, I burn dinosaur squeezing's to make AC power that is rectified to make DC that is then inverted to make AC so that I can transform it into DC. Seems rather wasteful to me.
That got me to wondering if I could modify one of them to just take the DC output before it goes to the inverter and sent it to my boats battery bank and skip the back half of the conversion nightmare.