Good morning,
The boat has 2 Yanmar 220hp engines, each with their own AGM starter battery. We also have a Fischer Panda 5000i NEO generator. Due to lack of space, we are cranking the generator through one of the engine's starter batteries. The problem is that if while the generator is running the engine starts, the generator control panel shuts down (due to battery undervoltage) and the generetor itself also shuts down.
To prevent this, I was thinking that I could install a BCD 802 battery combiner (80A continuous current), so that the current to start the generator could be drawn from both engine batteries. However, Fischer Panda infomed that the cranking of the generator could reach 200A max, so the question is whether the BCD 802 can support this cranking current.
Thank you for your attention,
Francisco
