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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Wow what a great Cup of Joe read in these latest threads. Scary part is, I'm understanding more and more about what is being written:)!
I've given my self an assignment, to learn how to accomplish the yearly audit on battery capacity tests. Even thought I felt I was treating our bank well, because I did not completely understand the Lifeline yearly recommend capacity tests - I've never done one. In hindsight, I should have forced the synapses to figure out how to do this... Good chance, I would have caught much earlier that something was not going the right way if I had:)!
Magnum set to deliver 14.4 again on Float and Equalize settings. Will do this while on shore power the next few days. Holding off on another Conditioning cycle, until I hopefully se Amps taper down. This AM, I saw 13A when I got up, but then an hour later, it was showing 18A again... Did the voltages I listed from the semi resting readings, provide enough evidence to isolate the two lower battery voltages from the bank? Or would you guys still recommend spicing the full X's 4 bank at the 14.4V level to see if this helps on any recovery?
And as I mentioned in an earlier post, IRV2 Member 757Driver, talked about lowering a banks overall AH's as they age. For example my 800AH bank when new, now at age 5 and apparently not fully charged for a period of time, lowering the Magnum Bank Size setting down to 600AH or 700AH to compensate for aging. What would be the recommendation from this gang?
DW is on a quest for a hike today, so will be later this afternoon before we take a run into town to get the Kill-A-Watt meter to get some readings. want to make sure the Samsung Fridge is not running amok as a few PM's from others have had with theirs. (They had RF197's vs we have RV18's, but do believe I recall reading in the past about RF18's too.
Ongoing TIA's, and best to all,
Smitty
I've given my self an assignment, to learn how to accomplish the yearly audit on battery capacity tests. Even thought I felt I was treating our bank well, because I did not completely understand the Lifeline yearly recommend capacity tests - I've never done one. In hindsight, I should have forced the synapses to figure out how to do this... Good chance, I would have caught much earlier that something was not going the right way if I had:)!
Magnum set to deliver 14.4 again on Float and Equalize settings. Will do this while on shore power the next few days. Holding off on another Conditioning cycle, until I hopefully se Amps taper down. This AM, I saw 13A when I got up, but then an hour later, it was showing 18A again... Did the voltages I listed from the semi resting readings, provide enough evidence to isolate the two lower battery voltages from the bank? Or would you guys still recommend spicing the full X's 4 bank at the 14.4V level to see if this helps on any recovery?
And as I mentioned in an earlier post, IRV2 Member 757Driver, talked about lowering a banks overall AH's as they age. For example my 800AH bank when new, now at age 5 and apparently not fully charged for a period of time, lowering the Magnum Bank Size setting down to 600AH or 700AH to compensate for aging. What would be the recommendation from this gang?
DW is on a quest for a hike today, so will be later this afternoon before we take a run into town to get the Kill-A-Watt meter to get some readings. want to make sure the Samsung Fridge is not running amok as a few PM's from others have had with theirs. (They had RF197's vs we have RV18's, but do believe I recall reading in the past about RF18's too.
Ongoing TIA's, and best to all,
Smitty
