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• Isolator vs Seperator (mechanical relay) was Re: Sure Power 1315 battery separator
  Historical mailing list - TC
  Mon, 13 Mar 2006 11:24:53 -0800
  >ARE THERE THERE ANY ADVANTAGES TO AN ISOLATOR at all ? > OK I just found this any comments ? > http://www.smithae.com/surepower.html luv...
• Re: Is battery isolator better than a relay?
  Historical mailing list - Bulley
  Wed, 3 Nov 1999 11:11:42 -0500
  What do you mean by "better job of charging both batteries"? The reason I ask is that the isolator and fittings for futzing with...
• Re: Battery switches
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Fri, 12 Jul 2002 10:17:29 -0400
  > I am not familiar with the VW setup, but my van uses a battery isolator to > automatically charge each battery when needed. The isolator...
• Re: Is battery isolator better than a relay?
  Historical mailing list - Mark McCulley
  Wed, 3 Nov 1999 08:39:18 PST
  I can't give any real quantitative evidence but what I've noticed is that with an isolator there is no longer any impact...
• Re: Is battery isolator better than a relay?
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Wed, 3 Nov 1999 07:53:37 -0800
  The main problem with most cheaper battery isolators is that they require the simple alternator mod but then only sense the voltage of ONE...
• Re: Why do JC Whitney Battery isolators have this VW caveat?
  Historical mailing list - LOREN BUSCH
  Tue, 3 Feb 2004 11:08:31 -0800
  ...Installing and isolator in a Vanagon Specific instructions for Vanagons here: http://www.surepower.com/pdf/180012p.pdf Vanagon instalation is mentioned specifically at...
• Re: SurePower Battery Isolator
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Sun, 10 Jul 2005 14:39:24 -0700
  ...Buying SurePower Isolators I've found them at the FLAPS, even the right model. Also chack local RV stores and marine supply houses. If...
• Re: I-Pods and isolators
  Historical mailing list - Gnarlodious
  Sun, 19 Sep 2004 19:55:35 -0600
  Entity Matt Bennett spoke thus: > when I hear about people spending $174 for > battery isolators I wonder.....why? I'm beginning to wonder it...
• Isolator, where to put it?
  Historical mailing list - Mitch A.Miller
  Thu, 21 Jan 1999 16:43:18 -0800
  ...My question is where is the best place to install the isolator so that I don't have to run another wire up to...
• Re: SurePower Battery Isolator
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Sun, 10 Jul 2005 16:23:24 -0700
  ...SurePower Battery Isolator > So I followed the discussion recently about the Sure Power battery > Isolator. I want one. Where the bloody can you buy...
• Re: Battery Charging voltages was 130 amp alt.
  Historical mailing list - harald_nancy
  Thu, 28 Jun 2001 12:08:48 -0700
  ...I use remote regulator sensing, in conjunction with the battery isolator. But you wouldn't have to use an isolator. On a sailboat, one...
• battery isolator
  Historical mailing list - Dan N
  Thu, 29 Oct 2020 11:47:46 -0700
  ...anyone having this isolator? https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00WTAFR5W/ezvid02-20?th=1 If not, could you please recommend one to...
• Re: battery isolator
  Historical mailing list - Laurence Smith
  Fri, 7 May 2004 19:42:44 -0400
  ...battery isolator > > > I will be hooking up a second battery in my westy in the > coming months. I have a battery isolator made by...
• Is battery isolator better than a relay?
  Historical mailing list - CARY CHIANG
  Wed, 3 Nov 1999 02:59:01 MST
  ...battery charging via a relay, I was wondering what the benefits were of a battery isolator versus a simple relay? Is it that the...
• Re: Using Isolator with Adjustable Voltage Regulator?
  Historical mailing list - Harald Rust
  Fri, 21 May 2004 09:34:05 -0700
  The voltage readings (13.8) you're getting with your isolator setup are too low. The voltage at the alternator should read somewhere about...
• Re: Mystery part - what is this thing?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 23 Sep 2003 03:56:08 -0400
  ...Busch wrote: >If you have the right isolator the isolator takes over the business of >regulating the voltage to both batteries, in fact the...
• 2nd battery isolator
  Historical mailing list - Karl Bloss
  Tue, 24 Mar 1998 10:41:13 +0000
  I'm toying with the idea of putting in one of those JC Whitney battery isolators for charging an aux. battery. They have an...
• Fwd: Why do JC Whitney Battery isolators have this VW caveat?
  Historical mailing list - Jim Heissenbuttel
  Tue, 3 Feb 2004 11:46:25 -0800
  ...jh Begin forwarded message: > ....If you try and use a diode type battery isolator with the > stockVanagon system you will likely end up with...
• Re: battery isolator installed
  Historical mailing list - Mark McCulley
  Mon, 7 Jun 1999 21:26:32 PDT
  ...You then connect this wire to a terminal on the isolator. (The isolator is simply a pair of high-current diodes that allow current...
• Re: Alternator/Aux Battery
  Historical mailing list - Bill Davidson
  Tue, 16 Jan 2001 12:35:56 -0800
  ...battery charged is by > using a battery isolator. Well.... 'best' is often dependent on your point of view.... we've hashed this over may...
• FW: Aux battery & isolator
  Historical mailing list - Pollard, Matthew
  Tue, 19 Jan 1999 10:36:23 -0800
  ...This automatically > compensates for the voltage drop across the isolator, which otherwise > would leave the batteries undercharged. Note of mild caution: if you > have...
• Isolators
  Historical mailing list - Dan Fleming
  Tue, 7 Dec 1999 09:50:22 -0800
  So, the JCWhitney catalog sells battery isolators, but lists a special stock number, fortunately cheaper than the rest, for VW vans only. These are...
• Re: Is battery isolator better than a relay?
  Historical mailing list - Bulley
  Wed, 3 Nov 1999 12:32:55 -0500
  ...Is battery isolator better than a relay? Only a isolator device that senses the charge state of the batteries individually AND applies a different...
• Re: Battery isolator question
  Historical mailing list - Richard A Jones
  Thu, 31 Jul 2014 17:03:19 -0600
  > Let's not confuse isolators (diode devices) with relays or contactors. Or combiners! I like: http://yandina.com/c100InfoR3.htm It would certainly fit...
• Re: Sure Power 1315 battery separator
  Historical mailing list - Paul Guzyk
  Mon, 13 Mar 2006 13:29:00 -0600
  ...Surepower sells both isolators and separators. In fact, Surepower invented the isolator yet THEY suggested the separator for my VW. I'm sure they...
• SurePower Battery Isolator
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Sun, 10 Jul 2005 17:10:40 -0400
  So I followed the discussion recently about the Sure Power battery Isolator. I want one. Where the bloody can you buy it online? Sure...
• Re: Is battery isolator better than a relay?
  Historical mailing list - Bulley
  Wed, 3 Nov 1999 12:37:41 -0500
  ...Is battery isolator better than a relay? I can't give any real quantitative evidence but what I've noticed is that with an...
• Re: re: auxiliary batteries
  Historical mailing list - Stuart Redford
  Wed, 14 Sep 94 12:33:15 PDT
  > > Never use a dual battery isolator on a VW bus because it chops off too much > of the charging current--more than a VW...
• RE: 78 aux battery
  Historical mailing list - Scott Allred
  Mon, 7 Oct 96 17:21:00 UT
  ...I've tried both the isolator set-up and relay >set-up. The relay won't work when the battery driving the relay is...
• Re: Mystery part - what is this thing?
  Historical mailing list - Roger Donahe
  Mon, 22 Sep 2003 07:21:16 -0700
  ...So if I want to leave the isolator in place, and get that secondary battery to power my house lights, do I run a...
• Re: Auxillary Battery
  Historical mailing list - Stuart Redford
  Wed, 14 Sep 94 12:30:55 PDT
  ...with an isolator. Works great! The isolator is made by Sure-Power in Tualitin OR.. 503-692-5360 I think the model for the...
• Re: SurePower Battery Isolator
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Sun, 10 Jul 2005 18:32:49 -0700
  ...SurePower Battery Isolator > > > > >>Don't screw around with their Isolator, get their Separator instead. It >>is the more modern and superior solution for Vanagon...
• Re: Solenoid Type Battery Isolator. Insulate Posts? PIC
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Sun, 17 Mar 2013 19:57:46 -0700
  Of note, this isolator is for a 3rd battery under rear seat. Neil. On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 7:21 PM, neil n...
• Re: Is battery isolator better than a relay?
  Historical mailing list - Mark McCulley
  Wed, 3 Nov 1999 10:00:38 PST
  ...Is battery isolator better than a relay? >Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 07:53:37 -0800 > >The main problem with most cheaper battery isolators...
• Re: Isolator, where to put it?
  Historical mailing list - harald_nancy
  Fri, 22 Jan 1999 12:32:41 -0800
  Mitch, With the isolator setup, there is no other way but to run another wire from the isolator to the aux. battery. I guess...
• Re: Battery isolator
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 11 Dec 2001 23:15:09 -0500
  What battery isolator comes in which model camper? The relay under the drivers seat in a Westy Vanagon is wored to disconnect the refrigerator...
• Re: Mystery part - what is this thing?
  Historical mailing list - Loren A. Busch
  Mon, 22 Sep 2003 20:53:56 -0700
  ...Charging with a battery isolator If you have the right isolator the isolator takes over the business of regulating the voltage to both batteries...
• isolator voltages
  Historical mailing list - Rob Campbell
  Sat, 8 May 2004 20:32:06 -0700
  Hello- I'm curious as to what voltages would be normal for 2 batteries w/ a surepower isolator. My main battery seems to have...
• Solenoid Type Battery Isolator. Insulate Posts? PIC
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Sun, 17 Mar 2013 19:21:59 -0700
  ...Shows isolator install: https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Gxwe6pu94ck/UUZ5Dgnj0NI/AAAAAAAAHNg/zoXyolS4GKU/s720/Battery%2520Isolator%2520Stud%2520Protection%253F.jpg AFAIK, not a common place for...
• 91 Westfalia aux battery wiring problem?
  Historical mailing list - gneiss9
  Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:04:57 -0600
  ...the one that activates the Aux batt isolator). -With Aux batt hooked up (to both isolator and long red wire to main fuse box...
• Re: Isolator, where to put it?
  Historical mailing list - Mitch A.Miller
  Tue, 26 Jan 1999 12:01:13 -0800
  harald_nancy wrote: > Mitch, > With the isolator setup, there is no other way but to run another > wire from the isolator to the aux...
• Re: Battery switches
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 12 Jul 2002 10:22:42 -0400
  ...The isolator acts like a >diode by preventing current from running back out of the batteries into the >charging circuit. Rob, installing an isolator...
• Re: wiring auxiliary battery
  Historical mailing list - Bill Davidson
  Fri, 26 May 2000 12:45:37 -0700
  If you buy an battery isolator kit it will have wiring instructions with it. It is named an isolator because it isolates the two...
• Battery isolator trouble
  Historical mailing list - Rob Campbell
  Mon, 17 May 2004 21:18:45 -0700
  Hello- A while back I installed an auxillary battery and a surepower isolator. I thought all was well for a while, but its not...
• Re: Battery isolator question
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Thu, 31 Jul 2014 15:02:22 -0700
  ...Although I doubt it's an issue, the "old school" "can" type isolators I'm using may draw more power off the alternator blue...
• Re: Is battery isolator better than a relay?
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Wed, 3 Nov 1999 12:49:05 -0800
  ...Is battery isolator better than a relay? > >Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 07:53:37 -0800 > > > >The main problem with most cheaper battery isolators...
• Re: Aux battery tyro
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:15:11 -0800
  The voltage dropping Isolator is not a Separator. Different products entirely, though the same company makes both. The 1315 Separator connects full voltage through...
• Aux Battery
  Historical mailing list - Wiesner Craig
  26 Nov 1996 11:32:40 -0800
  ...I put it on the posts on the isolator and they read 12.9v! I am losing a volt in the friggin isolator! I...
• Re: Becketts Tome on Dual Batt.s, Relays, Saftey,and charging (Very Long)
  Historical mailing list - Beckett Cantrell
  Sat, 17 Jun 2000 09:10:33 EDT
  ...charging systems as they are much more common and inexpensive than the isolator methoud. Good luck, Beckett
• Re: Battery question
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 16 Jul 2019 15:18:43 -0400
  > > The GW kit is described as using an isolator. If the diodes in an isolator > fail, it will typically fail in the "closed" position...
• Re: 2.0L I4 Opportunities
  Historical mailing list - Ben
  Wed, 15 May 2013 10:51:37 -0700
  ...In the US we > only got the 82 set with end isolators cages for the main center rubber > mounts and 83 with flat plates...
• Re: Questions on a 2nd battery
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 29 Dec 1995 17:43:45 -0700
  ...Where would I > find a relay isolator that can be switched off of the ignition? > >3) Are there any recommendations for shops in the...
• Re: DIESEL exhaust question
  Historical mailing list - David Brodbeck
  Mon, 23 Feb 2004 10:00:34 -0500
  ...On the right side, a rubber isolator goes between the muffler and the mount. All the isolators are the same -- a piece of rubber...
• Re: Battery Isolator question
  Historical mailing list - tom ring
  Thu, 4 Sep 2003 18:35:31 -0600
  Simplified - a battery isolator is essentially 2 one way valves. There is one inlet and 2 outlets. The current flows in the single inlet...
• Re: Isolator, where to put it?
  Historical mailing list - Davidson
  Sat, 23 Jan 1999 12:36:37 -0800
  ...Those fins on the isolator are there for a reason: to disperse heat. The engin compartment is a pretty warm place. My guess is...
• Re: Becketts Tome on Dual Batt.s,Relays,Saftey,and charging (VeryLong)
  Historical mailing list - Bill Davidson
  Mon, 19 Jun 2000 21:38:04 -0700
  ...and one of the tech guys also recommended it over the isolator when I talked to him about a year ago... but don't...
• Re: Becketts Tome on Dual Batt.s,Relays,Saftey,and charging (VeryLong)
  Historical mailing list - harald_nancy
  Mon, 19 Jun 2000 21:02:07 -0700
  ...But you can't really compare it to an isolator. Btw, Sure Power isolators are used in lots of marine applications. Have fun. Harald...
• Re: Where to get a Sure Power 1315-200 battery isolator?
  Historical mailing list - mark drillock
  Sat, 11 Mar 2006 07:48:23 -0800
  The SurePower 1315 is NOT an isolator, it is a smart separator. There is no voltage drop with it. The older diode type isolators...
• Mystery part - what is this thing?
  Historical mailing list - Steve Delanty
  Sat, 20 Sep 2003 18:43:30 -0700
  ...The main problem with the battery isolators is that they introduce an aproximately 0.7 volt drop in the charging voltage which is bad...
• Why do JC Whitney Battery isolators have this VW caveat?
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Mon, 2 Feb 2004 20:04:48 -0600
  ...IHC vehicles). ◦ 70 to 165 amps. ◦ Run accessories in vehicle without draining battery Why can't I run an isolator in a vanagon? Jim