Battery issues
Our trailer has 2 group 24 12V batteries. They seem to discharge quickly. With just the parasitic loads of fridge electronics, CO/Propane monitor and radio(not running) the voltage will drop from 12...
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owenssailor wrote:
It is 4 stage with and equalize function at 14.4V
You can have a 32 stage charger that will claim to perform oral sex on you after magically defying the laws of physics.
But the sad truth is, you are never going to equalize batteries at 14.4v.
The 4th stage is destratification. Gassing the batteries at 14.4v every so many hours when floating, mixes up the electrolyte so the denser stuff does not sink and chew up the bottoms of the plates faster.
Marketers paid themselves to do a study, and they decided "equalization" was a much more impressive term than "destratification" and would sell more products, then wrote that into their literature, then demanded more money. They are now trying to think up more impressive terms for more "stages" of charging to catch up with gargage charger marketing geniuses Noco and Ctek, who have already upped their game to 8 stages.
A true equalization is a forced overcharge with voltages as high as 16.2v.
But even if you were able to get your batteries to this high of a voltage and hold it for several hours, until specific gravity maxed out at 1.275+, this would not mean the batteries are restored to their full as new capacity, only that they are fully charged to their maximum remaining capacity.
If you can fit the taller gc-2 batteries, but opt instead for group 24's, you are throwing away money.
