Advice on a charge controller please :)

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Originally Posted by blackburn mark

sooo... if the shit hits the fan at work and we all get laid off ill park up on the west coast of Scotland put a wind genny up and run my cnc once a week for my beans on toast :)

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lol :triumphant:

Just thought id update this for the fun.....
I have been living in this van for 7ish years now (I have access to a garage/workshop for my heavy gear)

In summer I can pretty much run my cnc as often as I like (lots of solar power), for winter I built a 12v generator out of a Honda GX100 by boring out a 100A alternator and fitting it directly to the Honda output shaft:
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and controlled the current / voltage output with an Arduino (the motor, which was new, has done a couple of thousand hours now and is getting tired)
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I also have a Sterling alternator to battery charge controller for when I'm driving so I have three charging options.
I'm still on the original Trojan t105 batteries (X2) and they are holding up (basically golf cart batteries)

So it can be done :)

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Just thought id update this for the fun.....
I have been living in this van for 7ish years now (I have access to a garage/workshop for my heavy gear)

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Hell ! I had forgot about that. I will never complain about lock down again. Cheers

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Originally Posted by Clive S

Hell ! I had forgot about that. I will never complain about lock down again. Cheers

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Lockdown has been the only time living in a van has been a pain in the ass, I'm either parked outside work or on someone's drive at the mo.... not quite the dream :)
Normally its blissful quiet interspersed by mad dashes to a launch field with my ultralight (especially this time of year) its breaking my heart to miss all this flying weather!