Renogy batteries and charging
I am thinking about putting Renogy lithium-iron batteries in by RV but Renogy sales tells me that I need a charger made specifically for that type of battery. I currently have a Magnum ME2012 charger...
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drsteve wrote:
Ask Renogy for the specific requirements for charging their batteries.
This is what is in the manual on-line: "• Standard Charge shall consist of charging at 0.2C constant current rate until the battery reaches 14.6V.
The battery shall then be charged at a constant voltage of 14.6V while tapering the charge current.
Charging will terminate when the charging current has tapered to a 0.02CA. Charge Time is approximately
7 hours. Safe Charging consists of temperatures between 32 ºF and 113 ºF."
It sounds like with four 100ahr batteries I could charge at 80amps up to 14.6V then try to hold 14.6V until fully charged. I will have to play with the Magnum unit to see if it will let me do that. Also the desulferizing routine would need to be disabled. With those batteries setting me back about $3,300 I don't want to do too much trial and error.
