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Originally Posted by FieroChris
you will need some sort of charger between the generator and the batteries...
voltage will vary with RPM of ICE and the RPM will vary based on how much charge the batteries are taking...
better to have some regulation with is what a battery charger does... with several phases of charge. and if you have LIPO batteries... well they need special balancing chargers...
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The generator motor runs at a fixed 3600 rpm and you're right,I will have to run the output through some kind of charger if I use this set up.
I wish I had LIPO batteries, just too much $ right now. I am just running eight 12v leads for now with my home made resistive/voltage controller. This controller gave great performance when I had it set up at 108v/54v with 18 six volt leads, and I thought I could get even better performance if I switched to 12v bats and replaced 620 lbs of lead with a 150 lb genset.