Battery maintainer help
Brand new member. First question: I use two 6 volt 232Ah batteries in my RV. I run them in series. I want to purchase a battery maintainer. I see that some of the maintainers say that they are re...
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The 'up to 120 AH' is revealing about the maximum output of the maintainer.
They can't really know how much amperage each and every battery is going to require to be held at 13.xx volts, so they say X amount of amps our maintainer can provide, should be good for upto 120AH of battery.
It is really upto the batteries.
Far too many people, not really those on this forum, but automotive forums, act like a maintainer is the best charging source ever invented as it falls into grandpa's 'trickle charger is always best' mindset.
Get the batteries to a true 100% state of charge, hook the maintainer to them, and 2 weeks later see if they are still at maximum specific gravity. Then you will know if 'upto 120AH' applies to your batteries or not.
They can't really know how much amperage each and every battery is going to require to be held at 13.xx volts, so they say X amount of amps our maintainer can provide, should be good for upto 120AH of battery.
It is really upto the batteries.
Far too many people, not really those on this forum, but automotive forums, act like a maintainer is the best charging source ever invented as it falls into grandpa's 'trickle charger is always best' mindset.
Get the batteries to a true 100% state of charge, hook the maintainer to them, and 2 weeks later see if they are still at maximum specific gravity. Then you will know if 'upto 120AH' applies to your batteries or not.
