Battery charger or generator?

I think I will keep my clothes on, you go ahead and bare if you like.

The answer all is based on amps. How many amps output is your converter? How many amps output charger would you buy?

By the way, an RV converter is a battery charger.

Hi,

I'd go solar myself. 200 watts is just enough.

Eu 3000is 12v 12 Amp charge rate.... 144 watts. I think a charge controller will yield a faster recharge. A PD 9280 at 80 amps, is plenty for a 320 ah capacity of batteries at 12 V.

sjturbo wrote:
Bare with me on this. I just spent 2wks boondocking with my two Crown 325ahr 6v GC batteries. Every 4th day I ran the eu3000 4hrs to recharge up from 12.3V. Would I be better off connecting a battery charger to the gene and hooking direct to the batteries?

Researches ask 3 groups of men "Brief's or Boxers"
Young men replied Briefs
Medium aged said "Boxers"
Seniors said "Depends".

And the answer to your question is "Depends" on the converter in the RV.

Magnetek 6300.... Please upgrade it

Most decent parallex 7300 consider an upgrade but this one is much better than the last

Progressive Dynamics Intella power 9200.. There is no upgrade.
(Provided it has the optional dongle).
Or the 9100 with optional wizard
Or any of the other charge wizard controlled models. (With wizard or dongle depending on model).

You said 325 amp-hour (Strange size by my standard, though I do know they make them about that size) so you need around 90-100 amps of converter to charge them quickly bigger than that may damage them smaller takes longer to charge. A full charge should take around six hours with the proper size converter and the proper size wires. NOTE that that converter will require some very good size wires.

Just thinking. My prosine 2.0 Inverter is also a top of the chart 3-stage converter when it is in charger mode.. Again, there is no upgrade. Too bad its no longer made.. But they make others as good, oh, and it is a 100 amp converter though I've never seen it break 90 but once.

The word is bear.

Good points all! Cost of fuel is not so much an issue as I don't like the sound of gene's. I have it so DW can dry her hair and pop, popcorn as well as charge the batteries. I don't have a charger but the crux of the question was, can I run the gene less if I use a good battery charger. I will have to look for info on the eu3000 charge rate. Actually I just plug into the converter so it is probably more related to the 5er's converter charge capability. I will look into both! Regarding solar, would 200 watts be sufficient to keep the batteries charged?

As someone mentioned, it depends on the chargers.

What is the rate of charge on the generator? What would the rate of charge be on the charger you would use? You may find that a good charger will only take a couple of hours, where as the generator would require longer, if it's a lower charge rate. I imagine you are asking so as to figure which would cost you less in gas to charge the batteries.

If you already have a battery charger, take it with you next time, and do a little testing to see what results you get...testing the batteries every 30 minutes or so, to see when they are fully charged. Then charge with the generator and see how long that takes......
And finally, check to see how much fuel you use in each instance, because you may find that the generator is running at a lower load with it's charger, so uses less fuel than when the battery charger is plugged into the 110VAC.

Good luck:)

What is the charging voltage?

Better off might be 200 watts of solar.

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It totally depends on what converter and what battery charger your using.