It is a fixed voltage power supply. Nothing more nothing less. It feeds a Lifeline and I can rely on it for maintaining the battery while under supervision. I now have so many Meanwells, Cheapos, and Mega's it isn't funny. But the Whiff's 55 ampere capability intrigues me. When I want to zap the battery I'll use the BORG at 14.4. volts, timed for X minutes. When the BORG is resting the float can maintain 13.2 (temp 30+C) or whatever I choose. When the Spirit goes months at a time out of service in Guatemala I'll connect a cheapo under-hood, and dial in 13.4 volts. The 1 Quetzal local bus and 20 Quetzal cross-lake water taxi is too much to resist. Panajachel is tourist city +. Start off with Eggs Benedict at Al Chisme, and fake it from there.
I just do not like WRONG charging settings forced on me. The day I do not have 10-seconds free to check the batteries is the day I cash it all in.
At both Las Pe?as and Santiago, my main daily duty will be playing Green Acres with gardens. Raising baby cucumbers for GENUINE kosher dill pickles, cantaloupes, monster radishes and yellow USA corn for tender corn on the cob. My last cantaloupe planting in a 10X14' area yielded 304 fruit, the heaviest weighing almost 2 kg. Stretching heavy commercial fishing nets in a giant X across the garden 8' tall, did the trick. The vines climbed up and down the net. The area is rife with honey bees.
But all this is no fun when the lights go out. I have a pair of Endless breeze fans and a NOOK to keep me busy at night. In the tropics there is zero twilight. It goes from light to black in nothing flat. High power UV lighting in the bedroom and bathroom to find scorpions in a flash of green. On/On switches between LED and UV. These lights have found and doomed more than 100 scorpions. Get a wall full of scorpions at night and bring a couple of hens. The roosters follow. To them it's like a trip to Tony Roma's. There are on the other hand no "alacranes" at the lake.
Here where I am presently, there are six-inch long scorpions called "Emperor Scorpions". Fat. The curved barb on the tail measures 1/4" in length. Locals call them alacranes de mamá.
Yep. I need reliable batteries, chargers and LED lighting. South of the border IS without question, "The School of Hard Knocks".
