Which Guest Charger?

Then you are fine.

Larry B., if I can install it, I am sure you can too. I have all the tools necessary to do lots of things, just not the experience or the place to do it properly. But I manage doing a few things myself. ( No comment Hector :D)

Somewhere in all of these posts, are the exact wiring diagrams I followed from Mango Mike, to wire my Guest Charger. Maybe Mike still has it handy, but they are somewhere on this site, already.

As far as power to the guest charger, I too had a Hot Plug that was set up on a timer for the original but different type of charger for the house batteries. So when I used this plug for the Guest charger, I changed out the 60min timer, for an On/Off switch. I leave it ON all the time, works great.

Gary S.

Here's a professional, non crayon, drawing for you.

Attachment 5022

That a Boy, Mike. That is what they were looking for.

Gary S.

Mike your diagram appears to be for a 24 Volt set up, is that correct?

The chassis battery bank is treated as 24 volts, so your observation is correct.

I do have one question, shooting from the lip with zero thought given to it. If you lose an alternator or regulator, with it set up that way does the battery set go out of balance, or will the equalizer continue to function?

I would have to study this and was wondering if anybody has already pondered (southern expression) the issue.

Well not to kick this horse much longer,now that I have drawing, I have a couple of followup questions.

1. Where to mount the charger, is heat a consideration? I can mount it to the structure just forward of the battery bank next to the Batt. Equalizer. This looks like a good place but what about engine heat?

2. Do you remove the inline fuses from the charger leads?

3. I was looking for an AC source to plug into. None in my engine bay. Where is the block heater located and could I use that source and retain the use of the block heater?

Thanks for the hand holding!

Mine is mounted on the ceiling above the chassis batteries. It has a dedicated plug, but if you want use the block heater outlet. The block heater outlet is probably a 15 or 20 amp circuit breaker so I suggest you leave the in line fuses if they are of a smaller value. I'm not familiar with Guest chargers, but I am speaking generically.

There is heat in that area. Others have mounted chargers in that area and I don't think anyone has posted any issues.

Mine is mounted on the bulkhead next to the battery equalizer. I did leave the fuses in place.

I also have mine plugged into the block heater outlet, as I have absolutely no business being anywhere that I require a heated engine block :)

No problems to report with this setup and installation.

Jon and Paul, thanks for the replies. I don't have an outlet to plug into so----where is the block heater located? If I find the heater I can trace the wires. None of my manuals give the location of the heater.