CUCV pickup charging issues?

[Firedog7051]

We have a CUCV pickup as a forestry vehicle for my fire department, and it seems to be constantly draining the batteries, so I thought I'd pose the question here since none of us have any idea about this vehicle. My first question would be what are the 2 alternators supposed to be? 12 volts in series or 24volts in parallel? Second would be is there a slave receptacle on these vehicles, and if so where? The truck is parked right next to our M35A2 brush truck so it'd be much easier throwing a slave cable on than waiting for a charger to give the batteries some juice. The batteries are fairly recent and from what I've heard have been load tested ok.


TIA!

 

[MVtrucker]

I can't explain the drain, but I can tell you that the slave receptacle should be on the right front, behind the brush guard. Single pin NATO.

 

[n1vbn]

Where is the fire department. I live in Derry, NH and would be willing to come down and trouble shoot the truck with you. Between the two of us we should figure it out.

 

[gasser]

To answer your first question, they are 12v alternators in a series to produce 24v. Batteries are in the same type of setup.

 

[IBEZKUM]

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[IBEZKUM]

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