Please bear with me on this - I'm a rookie on the battery charging process.
I just returned from chartering a boat in the Caribbean, and in the briefing I was told that there was a battery dedicated to starting the engine and another "domestic" battery for everything else. Okay, got it.
But then they said that the domestic battery only charges up when the engine is in neutral, buy it does not charge when the engine is in forward. That's different from what I believe is the setup in my C-34, where both batteries charge when the engine is running, whether in neutral or forward (depending on the 1/2/Both switch).
What kind of setup would charge when the engine's in neutral, but not in forward?
I just returned from chartering a boat in the Caribbean, and in the briefing I was told that there was a battery dedicated to starting the engine and another "domestic" battery for everything else. Okay, got it.
But then they said that the domestic battery only charges up when the engine is in neutral, buy it does not charge when the engine is in forward. That's different from what I believe is the setup in my C-34, where both batteries charge when the engine is running, whether in neutral or forward (depending on the 1/2/Both switch).
What kind of setup would charge when the engine's in neutral, but not in forward?