Armada

The battery is 24v, from my genset.
Is there a way to charge a 24v battery other than using a battery charger? (I don't have a 24V charger). The battery is not totally dead, just not enough juice left to turn the motor over.

Maybe by running a vehicle with a 24v charging system and running leads from the slave connector to the battery?

OR, with the battery still connected in the genset, if I run a slave cable from the truck to the genset, will that charge it? (the genset has a nato plug on it). Or would it damage the genset?

I imagine I could also run the genset (it has pull start) and charge the battery that way, but I think it would take forever to charge it, if at all.

How about if I used (2) 12 volt chargers in series? That would give me 24v output, right? .....

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mangus580

I generally let the genset charge ours... or I charge them from the 1009.

Your thought on 2 12v chargers actually might work too.

Is this a 5kw?

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Armada

Yes, 5Kw. The battery is only about a year and a half old. It just never gets used. Now that I have a genset the power never goes off.

mangus580

Bring it up to snuff with one of the trucks... (to a startable state) then put a solargizer on it....

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[FONT=Comic Sans MS][SIZE=2]Mike

1970 M35A2 W/W
1986 M1009
1952 M37[/SIZE][/FONT]

[quote]If you can read this, thank a teacher, If its in English, thank a veteran!!![/quote]

gimpyrobb

If you have a SLAVE CABLE, why not hook the truck up to it for a while? That should charge it up fine.

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ida34

I broke down and got a 24 volt charger on ebay. Harbor freight had them for about $50 but I have about $25 into mine and it also works double duty as a 24 volt power supply. It has a 24 volt output and a 28 volt output for charging a standby battery. You could use it but I would just spend a couple of hundred dollars in diesel to charge it with the 5 ton and a slave cable. You could probably buy the Harbor freight unit for the diesel you would use to charge up the battery. I still have two of those batteries dry waiting for a time when I can work on the gensets.

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