AMP Draw Issues
Good morning Folks! I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction... We have a 2005 Keystone Outback 26RS travel trailer and did our first dry camping last week. When the heat quit about ...
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mike-s wrote:
Feel free to boil your own batteries while in storage. Other than that, you'd do well to follow your own advice and avoid spreading bad info.
Well that IS THE POINT EXACTLY.
750 ma for maybe two or 3 hours a day will NOT " boil your battery".
It just will not. Not even a tiny little motorcycle battery.
That is not bad information.
Now.....the point trying to be made here is valid for plugin "trickle chargers" that run 24/7 because they may go up as high as 15 volts and stay there......forever.
And further, the example in the video was AGM batteries. If the bank isn't being drawn down enough so that a 750 ma source will hit the point of over charge in less than 4 hours....you probably don't need ANY charging source on a bank with that kind of (non)usage; certainly not every day.
The suggestion of a trickle charger and timer is valid here too.....only the rotation of the earth provides the timer for a solar source.
I've been in the electronics industry for about 50 years and nothing you can say or quote is going to convince me that a 750 ma source is going to damage a battery setup like in the video where any excess charge is spread across that large a plate area and electrolyte volume.
I'm done. Rant on as you please.
