

| Subject: | 6-12v charging system for Thoms macchina |
| From: | Al Knoll |
| Date: | Mon, 6 Feb 95 14:51:11 PST |
Sounds almost too easy. You can get a 6VDC to 120VAC converter if you look
really hard in the JCW catalog or bug the dickens out of your local ancient
rv folks. Then it's a simple matter of hooking your 120vac battery charger
and running to the battery set.
To charge the "12VDC" battery you'll need 13.8VDC+ a little which of course
you can't easily get from 6VDC. Kinda like making a waterfall run backwards.
Sacrilegious to convert the bus. Maybe a solar charger for the long days at
the beach.
Basics of conversion to 120VAC from DC. Use a "chopper" to break the DC into
pulses at 60 hz (cycles/sec). Use a transformer to go from 6vdc chopped to
130VAC. Filter the trash off the 130VAC 60~ to get 115VAC nominal.
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