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Battery apu

Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by Spyro2112, Aug 20, 2018.

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  1. Aug 20, 2018 #1
    Spyro2112

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    Any information on battery apus, weighing my odds
     
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  3. Aug 20, 2018 #2
    JLMooreKCMO

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    Unless you run reefer I don't recomend.
     
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  4. Aug 20, 2018 #3
    Spyro2112

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    Cool thnx
     
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  5. Aug 20, 2018 #4
    86scotty

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    @JLMoore, can you elaborate?
     
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  7. Aug 20, 2018 #5
    Spyro2112

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    Looking at a international with a battery apu, read they're ok only if the truck is well insulated, are they worth it and if anyone has one how do they like it
     
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  8. Aug 20, 2018 #6
    86scotty

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    I'm happy with my Thermo King but I definitely am curious what reefer has to do with it.

    I talked to a guy the other day at a dock who says he is spec'ing one on his next truck. He says it will only cool you for 8 hours (before the batteries get too low to run) but the huge advantage is that it is silent, and of course that it doesn't use fuel. I'd REALLY like it if my Thermo King were quieter, but sometimes it drowns out other noise around me so it is useful.

    Decisions......
     
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  9. Aug 20, 2018 #7
    Snailexpress

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    This guy just doesn't know there is no free energy in this world. So far.
    You have to burn fuel later to charge those batteries.
     
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  10. Aug 21, 2018 #8
    25(2)+2

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    I don't know if there are figures on how much fuel it takes while running down the road to charge those auxiliary batteries, but if you idle to do it probably a fair amount.

    And they usually call battery powered APUs EPUs.
     
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  11. Aug 21, 2018 #9
    88 Alpha

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    I'm a solar-powered driver who predominately runs the south. I've had my current truck a little over a year and it's an International with a battery-powered APU. My previous trucks had Carrier and Thermoking APUs (but not at the same time).

    Overall, I like the battery-powered APU as long as:
    1) I don't want to sleep during the day (doesn't get it cool enough to sleep in Miami or South Texas in the middle of the day) and
    2) you only want to use it for 8-10 hours. After that, I find it depletes the batteries and shuts off. The company has a 5 minute idle limiter on the truck, so occasionally you have to "encourage" the truck to idle to recharge the batteries.

    Never had either of those issues with either diesel-powered APU, just a bit noisy, but it drowned out other noise, so even that was a frequent win.
     
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  12. Aug 21, 2018 #10
    Bean Jr.

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    Like wise, I don't sleep in the day and I don't do resets anywhere but at home, so a battery operated could work for me.
     
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