Sounds like sophisticated, high-tech batteries to me. Not the sort of setup I'm voicing concerns about, because that's what I'm doing and it worries me.Is the SEE's charging system ideal for the Group 31 Optimas I installed? Probably not. Does it work? Yes, so far.
Yeah, we'll have to "SEE" about that, but most owners aren't running their FLUs commercially day-in and day-out, more "weekend warrior" work. I could be completely wrong, but I think time will show that cheapo battery downgrades lead to blown alternator relays on our trucks. Not worth arguing about now, only keeping an eye on as time goes by, and even then I'll be open to other explanations, including manufacturing defects in Bosch 24V continuous-duty alternator relays... I geek out on this stuff, is all.Will the SEE's charging system croak due to running two smaller batteries? Maybe you're right, and it will. But many FLU owners do it and if it was detrimental I'd think we would've heard from the others by now.
On a full tank, maybe two weeks. So I bought this dually 12V Cummins Dodge from a guy in Long Beach, whose stranger-neighbor sold me the crane-service body. I had a buddy in LA check it all out, he reported back the air filter needed replaced. The seller was kind enough to drive it to me here because he wanted to buy another truck nearby, with the service body on it, so great deal, right? Except to make it run better he *removed* the air filter before driving it 1,500 miles across the desert southwest in September.As a final thought, I'm now curious to find out how long a SEE will operate (once started) without any charging whatsoever. My guess is that if not using any lights, it'll run for many, many hours. Maybe days.
Ground a perfectly-good 120K-mile Cummins down to a nub. The last time it started, with a full 30 gallons of fuel, I dumped that "Restore" goop into the crankcase. Not trusting to drive it for 500 miles to "restore compression" I decided to just run it out of fuel and see what happened... took 10 days!!! Never started again. There's just no compression.
I said I wanted Burgundy, not Maroon, on my 3/4 ton 24V (pictured). I haven't seen her in person, but the bodyshop sent me these pics this morning. I'll have my reliable truck back a week from now, boy do I need it! Because I've had such setbacks with all my other trucks. Unfortunately, it's scheduled for interior detailing / headlight-lens polishing, then a repair shop to add another leaf spring to the passenger side before I actually get it back to put the crane-service body on. Oh, and a Jack's Bumper from over in Craig...