MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
OK try this on and perhaps maybe kind of possibly I can "absorb" some of this mutant logic :)
Absolute maximum potential amperage delivery at 12.50 volts / 12.70 volts / 12.90 volts / 13.10 volts ?
One of the components is and has been missing. Or I should perhaps distill this a bit further (?)
Will your power source deliver the same max "I" potential at 13.0 volts as it does at 12.0 volts output? Forget the load involved and concentrate on power supply capability.
Yes, it is current limited to the same max amps at any voltage output. Of course you cannot ignore the load for what amps you actually get as output, since there has to be enough difference between the higher charger's voltage and the lower voltage of the battery to allow for those max amps. Once the battery voltage rises to a certain point, you can't get max amps anymore and now amps will taper.
Prior to that during the constant amps "bulk" stage, the battery would accept more amps, but the charger can't do that many, so it just flat-lines along
EG, Iota converters with IQ4 have their initial 14.8 set point and then when the battery gets to 14.6, the converter drops to 14.2v output. Iota mentions that you can get max amps at either voltage if the battery will accept them at that voltage at that SOC you have reached. (which depends on the max amps value wrt the AH size of the bank--where you get max amps for longer if the bank is bigger---see the ugly graph posted above for how that all works.