Re: Bluefire monitoring for Ipad
Reply #23 –
I looked at Bob Rozens electronic dash he installed in his 97 U320 coach closely when I bought his complete dash set a few years ago. I agree with roger that it required/enticed you to look down too much.
I really appreciate the thought that Foretravel put into the stock gauge placement in the dash on our 97. The top row can be viewed with either a quick direct view or adverted vision.
That being said the VPMS shows enough detail to help troubleshoot engine conditions.
Dash temp gauge shows high at 180 on VPMS. It shows almost 190.
At 210 they agree.
I had a electrical line to the toad come loose and that ran down the cars battery after 6 hours of driving.
Hooked up the wire again and the engine battery volts went up .2 volts as did the javalena dash oem gauge.
Meant that the cars battery was being charged back up to me.
After 2 hours the voltages dropped back the .2 volts.
The combiner helps as both banks are locked together when either is being charged.
The various battery gauges we have show that the replaced non adjustable LN alternator is overcharging all of our batteries in hot weather from .2 to .5 volts versus turn off the engine after a long run and have the gen on to run air conditioning and the inverter panel shows a much lower float voltage than the alternator was putting out.
I may swap out the new non adjustable alternator for the recently rebuilt LN same unit but with the adjustable voltage regulator set .2 volts lower than the non adjustable one is.
If I had a sense wire alternator and regular batteries versus lithium I might take off the sense wire in the summer.