buickanddeere
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So I talked with a John Deere service tech this morning. His words are that both the battery's are charged in parallel and the starter draws the current in series. That's what the wiring diagrams that I have show too. So you aren't going to charge a 12 volt battery with 24 volts, therefor the generator is 12 volts unless you want to add up the two outputs and say it's 24 volts.
All I know is that if you want to repair the system you need to understand it. The generator has two separate 12 volt charging circuits in it. Both are controlled by one voltage regulator. If you add a load to one battery like a radio, or a fan for the cab, or a monitor for a round baler sooner or later you are going to have one dead battery. It was definatly an ingenious engineer that developed the system. What he forgot about was that over time a burnt out light bulb, some extra resistance somewhere, or accessory's would change the way the battery's needed to be charged. That's why John Deere came up with a change over kit. I just buy the starter and do the rest myself as the John Deere kits are pricey. A 12 volt 3020 starter on eBay used to be around the $200 mark.
Tx Jim I don't really want to get into a big argument with you. If You want to stay with the idea that everything you say is fact go ahead. Maybe John Deere built tractors differently for the Texas market. There are lots of things I don't know, but i do have a basic understanding of how a John Deere 24 starting system works. Thanks to you I now understand it better that I did before.
txjim is 100% correct. as much we enjoy yanking each other's chain.
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