Charge Wizard needed?

ckacosta wrote:
Does anyone know if I need a Charge Wizard for a 'Progressive Dynamics InteliPower 9130' converter?

There are basically 3 "Bands" of converters (4 if you are really picky)

The lowest band: Magnetek 6300 series .. Very bad regulation damages batteries

The next band Parallex 7300 series, Progressive Dynamics 9100 series barefoot (Read on for the meaning of barefoot)

The next band.. Most good 3 stage converters

THe BEST Band, 3-stage PLUS one additional features.. These are the best converters made and include the Progressive Dynamics 9200. and the 9100 with the Charge Wizard

Without the wizard you get basically 13.6 Volts.. now eventually this might charge yoru batteries up, but to hit full we are about 10 days short of forever... Not a bad converter by any means, but 2 bands from BEST

WITH the Wizard.. You get a 3 stage converter with the additonal features of .. Auto-Desulfaction/equalization, after 20 hours of FLOAT it will kick into "Equlize or Desulfate" (Same mode two names) to stir things up a bit in yoru batteries... My batteries lasted NINE years with this converter.

Also a feature for SOME (optional feature on teh 9200) is the manual override of mode.. I have used it I( think 2 times in 11 years so it's not that important.. but it too is there.

I would highly suggest you invest in the dongle.

Footnote:

If you ever upgrage yoru batteries, and go to a larger 9100 series.. Same wizard works on all of them.