BATTERIES
I recently have purchased an off grid hunting camp. I have purchased two GC2 batteries from Sam's club, each 6 volts and 215 amp hour. I will be connecting the two together in series (A positive to B negative) (B positive to load/charge and A negative to load/charge)
I bought a crappie schmacher "smart" charger, connected it to the batteries, it wont do anything. Connected it to a couple of other batteries still would not work (lawn mower, motorcycle). I will be sending it back.
With the batteries connected as stated above, I should be charging in 12 volt mode correct?
What is a good cheap quick smart or 3 stage battery charger? I will be running the battery charger on gas Yamaha 2000 watt inverter. I don't want to run the inverter all day.
I know to figure out how long to recharge is battery amps / by charger rated amps + 10% In my case, 215/30=7.2 + .72= 7.92 (8 hours) that's a long time. Maybe need a 40amp (about 6 hours to recharge)or 50amp (about 5 hours to recharge) Those hours are from complete dead state which "should" never occur. From the batteries, I will only be running a few cfl lights, maybe a fan, and maybe a radio for 5-6 hours at night. then recharging during the day.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I bought a crappie schmacher "smart" charger, connected it to the batteries, it wont do anything. Connected it to a couple of other batteries still would not work (lawn mower, motorcycle). I will be sending it back.
With the batteries connected as stated above, I should be charging in 12 volt mode correct?
What is a good cheap quick smart or 3 stage battery charger? I will be running the battery charger on gas Yamaha 2000 watt inverter. I don't want to run the inverter all day.
I know to figure out how long to recharge is battery amps / by charger rated amps + 10% In my case, 215/30=7.2 + .72= 7.92 (8 hours) that's a long time. Maybe need a 40amp (about 6 hours to recharge)or 50amp (about 5 hours to recharge) Those hours are from complete dead state which "should" never occur. From the batteries, I will only be running a few cfl lights, maybe a fan, and maybe a radio for 5-6 hours at night. then recharging during the day.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
