charging toad with invisibrake brake setup
I have read several posts about having lights on in rv in order to charge toad battery .My toad charges with the lights on or off.I use 7 wire to 6 pin connector to the toad from rv. The 2 extra pins ...
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Two items come to mind....
My Rule number one is never do anything to your truck systems as it is the way you get home.. Item number two is you will only get a truckle charge at the end of your long 12VDC small gauge wire coming from your truck start battery. This Will not do any serious charging of your trailer battery per say...
Nose your truck up to the trailer battery bank and connect up using jumper cables and run your truck for three or four hours would be a better way to get some charge into your battery...
Consider these deep cycle battery charging rules put out by Progressive Dynamics. They don't even list how long it tales just using 12.2VDC - it will take a few days to re-charge...
"Progressive Dynamics ran this test on the amount of time it took a PD9155 (55-amp) converter/charger set to three different output voltages to recharge a 125 AH (Amp Hour) battery after it was fully discharged to 10.5-volts.
14.4-VOLTS (Boost Mode) – Returned the battery to 90% of full charge in approximately 3-hours. The battery reached full charge in approximately 11 hours.
13.6-VOLTS (Normal Mode) – Required 40-hours to return the battery to 90% of full charge and 78-hours to reach full charge.
13.2-VOLTS (Storage Mode) – Required 60-hours to return the battery to 90% of full charge and 100-hours to reach full charge."
Roy Ken
My Rule number one is never do anything to your truck systems as it is the way you get home.. Item number two is you will only get a truckle charge at the end of your long 12VDC small gauge wire coming from your truck start battery. This Will not do any serious charging of your trailer battery per say...
Nose your truck up to the trailer battery bank and connect up using jumper cables and run your truck for three or four hours would be a better way to get some charge into your battery...
Consider these deep cycle battery charging rules put out by Progressive Dynamics. They don't even list how long it tales just using 12.2VDC - it will take a few days to re-charge...
"Progressive Dynamics ran this test on the amount of time it took a PD9155 (55-amp) converter/charger set to three different output voltages to recharge a 125 AH (Amp Hour) battery after it was fully discharged to 10.5-volts.
14.4-VOLTS (Boost Mode) – Returned the battery to 90% of full charge in approximately 3-hours. The battery reached full charge in approximately 11 hours.
13.6-VOLTS (Normal Mode) – Required 40-hours to return the battery to 90% of full charge and 78-hours to reach full charge.
13.2-VOLTS (Storage Mode) – Required 60-hours to return the battery to 90% of full charge and 100-hours to reach full charge."
Roy Ken
