08-29-2020, 01:33 PM
Someone with that era experience will have to comment on which the converter or the inverter is charging your batteries.
If it is the converter, they are known as battery boilers for a reason.
The reason that propane and sulfur smell so similar is that propane is dosed with a chemical family known as mercaptans to make it obviously smellable. Mercaptans are organosulfides, meaning they have a petroleum backbone with a sulfur attached. And that’s your chemistry lesson for today.
And if the batteries are not merged, something is very amiss in the engine battery overheating. Your best friend here is your voltmeter. Take readings at all batteries and merge solenoid with the converter OFF, then turn it on and take the same readings again. That will tell you two things. What voltage the converter is producing, and what components are seeing that voltage.
I know you have Tom’s info. Mine is 817 223 2056
If it is the converter, they are known as battery boilers for a reason.
The reason that propane and sulfur smell so similar is that propane is dosed with a chemical family known as mercaptans to make it obviously smellable. Mercaptans are organosulfides, meaning they have a petroleum backbone with a sulfur attached. And that’s your chemistry lesson for today.
And if the batteries are not merged, something is very amiss in the engine battery overheating. Your best friend here is your voltmeter. Take readings at all batteries and merge solenoid with the converter OFF, then turn it on and take the same readings again. That will tell you two things. What voltage the converter is producing, and what components are seeing that voltage.
I know you have Tom’s info. Mine is 817 223 2056
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