Another AGM conditioning question
This is my chassis battery, an agm I got used and have little experience with. Trickle charger failed in storage, it is dead as a doornail. Not covenient to babysit it for long hours on meanwell or...
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Naio - My apology in advance, if you feel this rude to tag along on this thread. Assure no attempt of highjacking. But the 'Another AGM conditioning question' heading - and what you are doing, are very similar to what I'm doing with a bank of Lifeline's. So, I thought it fit into the general conversation.
Many of the posters on this thread have been helping with a bank of X's 4 Lifeline L16's AGM, that at age 5 appear to be on their way South for ever:)!
I've now completed two sets of Magnum 4 hour Equalizing/Conditioning runs. (Two back to back, to get to the 8 hours Lifeline Tech Manual indicates.) I did one set. Then the next day drew the bank down to 95% SOC, and fully charged them. Then the third day, one again I saw Full Charge on the Magnum, and read a full bank of 12.7V at the battery with Multi Meter. Ran another two sets of Magnum Equalizing/Conditioning. (Temperature compensated to between 15.4 - 15.6V.).
After reading MW's input of a 14.4V steady feed and wait until battery drops to 1.0. I've reset the Magnum Equalize value to 14.4V to ensure this stead feed of 14.4V.
Battery bank indicated they're full when I started this. 20 mins into it, 27A are indicated.
So question here, with a full charged bank of 800AH Lifeline's, and starting this feed of 14.4V - is the 27A an indication of anything? If fully charged, should it be closer to the 1.0 level? Or is this an indication of a bad battery of batteries or cells within batteries? Temp started at 67F and 15 mins later dropped to 64F? (By chance, even though the Magnum indicated Full when I looked, it may have just finished a Float Cycle, which had the temp up to 67F when I started?).
OK - Again apologize if this is considered a hijack... But thought it was relevant to AGM conditioning:)! Will start a new thread if I'm intruding...
Smitty
Many of the posters on this thread have been helping with a bank of X's 4 Lifeline L16's AGM, that at age 5 appear to be on their way South for ever:)!
I've now completed two sets of Magnum 4 hour Equalizing/Conditioning runs. (Two back to back, to get to the 8 hours Lifeline Tech Manual indicates.) I did one set. Then the next day drew the bank down to 95% SOC, and fully charged them. Then the third day, one again I saw Full Charge on the Magnum, and read a full bank of 12.7V at the battery with Multi Meter. Ran another two sets of Magnum Equalizing/Conditioning. (Temperature compensated to between 15.4 - 15.6V.).
After reading MW's input of a 14.4V steady feed and wait until battery drops to 1.0. I've reset the Magnum Equalize value to 14.4V to ensure this stead feed of 14.4V.
Battery bank indicated they're full when I started this. 20 mins into it, 27A are indicated.
So question here, with a full charged bank of 800AH Lifeline's, and starting this feed of 14.4V - is the 27A an indication of anything? If fully charged, should it be closer to the 1.0 level? Or is this an indication of a bad battery of batteries or cells within batteries? Temp started at 67F and 15 mins later dropped to 64F? (By chance, even though the Magnum indicated Full when I looked, it may have just finished a Float Cycle, which had the temp up to 67F when I started?).
OK - Again apologize if this is considered a hijack... But thought it was relevant to AGM conditioning:)! Will start a new thread if I'm intruding...
Smitty
