If I had another battery can I power my aux lights with 24 volts--while operating the rest of the Cruiser on 12 volts?
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If you want to.........You just need to wire the lights in series(I think) and make sure you know which wires are 24 so you don't fry something later on. I have a couple of 24 volt relays if you want them and if I can find them. The main thing is to make sure that the aux lights are wired completely independently from everything else. I would even run the ground wires back to the battery just to make sure.
Good luck
Dan
BTW
what kind of lights are you using to need 24v???????
Good luck
Dan
BTW
what kind of lights are you using to need 24v???????
Well maybe, but you would need some fancy relay work to charge the other battery. You could not run the lights and charge the battery at the same time. BTW 24v lights are actually looking for 28v you lights may be dimmer at 24v or 26 you may get engine running.
We used to run 12v radios in 24v military trucks while driving down the road, Does this not work in reverse? The old CUCV also had a 24 volt starter and 12v everything else and it had no fancy relay. I would love to find out how this all turns out so I don't burn my truck down around me but good luck. Good point aboutt the light voltage though, I didn't think about the actual demand.
Dan
Dan
I think you're gonna need more than fancy relays to charge that other battery. Unless you're switching them both back in and out.
A fully floating switching isolator would probably be better way to do (basically gives you a floating 12 Volt source) that can connect up the other battery. But then I've never seen how Toyota does this on the 24V systems. Seems to me this is a lot of work/hassle and complication for marginal benefit.
A fully floating switching isolator would probably be better way to do (basically gives you a floating 12 Volt source) that can connect up the other battery. But then I've never seen how Toyota does this on the 24V systems. Seems to me this is a lot of work/hassle and complication for marginal benefit.
KliersLC, two 24v lights in series would need 48v (nominal, 56v charging)
the military trucks probably had 2 12v batteries in series that were charged by a 28v generator. tapping off of one battery gets you 12/14v to operate your radio, the problem here is we need to chagre the batteries at 14v as we have a 14v alternator. so they need to be in parallel to charge, to then output 24v they need to be in series witch prevents chargeing the second battery
the military trucks probably had 2 12v batteries in series that were charged by a 28v generator. tapping off of one battery gets you 12/14v to operate your radio, the problem here is we need to chagre the batteries at 14v as we have a 14v alternator. so they need to be in parallel to charge, to then output 24v they need to be in series witch prevents chargeing the second battery
Riley said:
agreed, sounds like somebody is trying to get aircraft landing lights to work on a cruiser?
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RavenTai said:
RavenTai--you figured it out. But it sounds like more work than I want. Right now I have Lightforce 240's and they are good along with HIR's--I was just interested in more light
RavenTai said:
AHHHHh........
That makes sense, thank you fort the clarification, I meant the batteries in series not the lights but I am still wrong as you pointed out later on.
I guess I now know who the electrical genious is around here
Dan
