Battery Question, Again
Folks I come to you, hat in hand again to try to help me understand what is going on with my batteries. I have four 6 volt batteries in my camper. I bought new batteries in September last year. I brou...
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theoldwizard1 wrote:BFL13 wrote:
You can set it to 14.8 eg, and it will stay there till you change it (with a little screwdriver)
Okay, I skimmed over the PowerMax converter charger and I did not see anywhere that it could be adjusted to 14.8V. Am I missing something ?
Yes, it can be set to a constant 16.5, but boy you had better watch those batteries carefully !
(FYI - those who follow MeccioWander's posts know this is the same problem he has over come by building his own charger from 2 different 12V power supplies that he can "tune" to specific voltages. Not automatic, but the higher voltage portion is connected via a manual timer.)
Yes you missed para 10 of the instructions for the LK that I linked.
Switch A-- move it to the right and now it is single stage, and use a little screwdriver like for glasses frames in the pot (Switch B)
You can set any voltage you like, but do it without the battery being connected. Just your voltmeter. Once your voltage is set, you connect to a battery and the voltage then seen on the connecting wires will be somewhere between the voltage you set and what the battery was at. Then the voltage rises with SOC until it reaches almost the same as what you set. Your meter might even show it at that voltage.
If you want to use the converter as a regular 3 stage, set the pot to 14.6 and THEN, move Switch A back to the left.
If you fiddle with the pot while Switch A is to the left, it will screw up all three of the voltages. You can fix that by moving the switch to the right, set 14.6 and move it back to the left.
Note--the left and right above is as with a proto-type LK I saw. The production model is probably the same.
