Traps in Wasteland

[Lax]

My question is once the batteries are completely recharged from the generator, and the timer turns off, does the battery bank immediately resume sending power to devices connected to it, now that it's no longer charging?

If true, then after the battery charging cycle, the generator would stop providing power to those devices connected to the battery bank and hand off that job back to the battery bank. This is actually the setup I'm looking for.

My only mistake was thinking the generator and battery bank could be completely turned off/then back on by a timer relay. But both need to be "constantly" running/always on.

 

[Riamus]

My question is once the batteries are completely recharged from the generator, and the timer turns off, does the battery bank immediately resume sending power to devices connected to it, now that it's no longer charging?

If true, then after the battery charging cycle, the generator would stop providing power to those devices connected to the battery bank and hand off that job back to the battery bank. This is actually the setup I'm looking for.

My only mistake was thinking the generator and battery bank could be completely turned off/then back on by a timer relay. But both need to be "constantly" running/always on.

Batteries only send power if no power is in the circuit. For example, when a solar bank is off at night or the generator runs out of power. It doesn't have to do with being charged.

 

[theFlu]

My question is once the batteries are completely recharged from the generator, and the timer turns off, does the battery bank immediately resume sending power to devices connected to it, now that it's no longer charging?

The battery charge status doesn't matter, but yes, whenever the timer turns off, the batteries will start powering the stuff behind it.

You can also add a switch between the timer and the batteries to manually disable the charging, in case you need to quickly get the power running again. (But not the other way around, to manually start a charge cycle, you'd need to fiddle with the timer, or just bypass it with the wiring .. )