T&T: (Potentially) Catastrophic Electrical Shut-down

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Hi Garrett: I note that you said the batteries were probably 5 years old. I  
am a safety kind of person and so I put a maximum time on equipment based on  
hours. For batteries I place a 4 year limit which means every 4 years 1 or 
more  batteries are replaced no matter if they show they are good. Being at the 
mercy  of the inevitable demise of batteries at their discretion is not for me. 
I  assume that your fuel pump is electric and it shut down when the 
alternator  slowed and there was nothing to keep the current flowing. I note that you 
turned  off the generator after start up but this procedure only gave you the 
alternator  output to work with and now you know the result. The culprit of all 
this was the  batteries and you may wish to consider a plan for regular 
replacement of same  rather than waiting for the batteries to fail at an 
inappropriate time. Regards.  Leonard Stern, INDIFFERENCE.