Rec: end-current cutoff at low amps

[thomasow]

Originally Posted by john61ct

My use case, when maneuvering in a dicey situation, you sometimes need to ensure all available engine horsepower is driving the prop. Of course a manual kill switch at the helm is the usual, and KISS reliable solution.

You could do that today - add a NO switch across the alternator NTC sensor, closing it to signal to the regulator you want 'half power' then use the $SCA: configuration command to set the 'half-power' pullback to 10%

Originally Posted by john61ct

Sounds good!
"Other projects" include: looking to create a small DC generator/charger, as well as getting the most out of an HO alt on the propulsion engine.

One day, a central control that would integrate solar/wind shore charging, the two fossil-fuel sources and SoC/coulomb-counting monitors like SmartGauge, Trimetric, etc would be ideal, think your code could be the foundation for something like that?

If so seems to me the CAN functionality would part of the solution.

Have you seen the DC generator controller project? Am going to refresh its design this fall.

The whole CAN effort is around allowing charging sources to be coordinated and prioritized - but (and this is a detail) using a distributed architecture. No single-point-of-failure 'Central Control' device, instead prioritized masters with fail-overs and even fall-back to single-signaling (voltage only) much like we have today.