AGM House Battery Charge/Discharge

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Originally Posted by Imre

Regarding my previous post, I only expressed my limited and very personal understanding of the Outback inverters. And I am looking very much forward to talking to Thompson in Tampa. I am only curious about how things work and would be delighted to learn more about their system from you or anyone else. If the post sounded critical I appologize. I find it very refreshing to see new converters using more ingenuity to get us out of the RV dinosaurs era.

And now to respond to the personal aspect of your post, I find you a great sport and I am very encouraged to know that replacing the air bags (among other things) can be done in my garage without having to deal with annoying help. I would like to place some sensors there to monitor the wheel weights from my laptop (dream on, right :) ).

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They are actually already using this technology in OTR Trucks. There are several systems that allow one to "weigh" the truck axles on site thereby saving a trip to the scales and avoiding overweight tickets. I do not know the particulars as I have never been interested in it for my fleet but I have seen them, talked to several who have them and like them.

If you want to know more I'll see if I can run down one of the suppliers and get their info to you.

Michael

Neway and Hendrickson both supply a 'scale-o-matic' device that can give you an estimated axle weight for each axle of your vehicle that has this installed, that axle weight is then displayed on a guage.

All you need is to T off the supply line to 1 air bag per axle and run it to an air pressure guage into the cockpit. Pete or K-W actually have guages marked suspension air. Once installed you can calibrate by going to a truck scale and crossing the air pressure with the axle weight. I know that these busses wont vary as much as a semi, loaded compared to empty, but as an example when empty in a semi a bag has about 15 or 20LBS and loaded your at 60 or 65LBS. It will probably vary from axle to axle on the bus. I have a lot of friends with on board scales and they love them. a simple air pressure guage will achive the same result. If you like the idea of an onboard scale the dash moniter looks almost the same as my wireless tire pressure moniter.
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The loaders at the quarry now have them as well so I didnt get them. Ask for 24 ton and get almost exactly 24 ton every time, SWEET.