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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pianotuna wrote:
Hi BFL13 what is an LK?
Katdaddy wrote:
This charger is supposed to be a smart charger and has a repair cycle. I have run the batteries through the repair cycle twice, with no apparent luck. The hydrometer is a glass model with the float.
Understand your frustration. You are trying to do it right but don't have the right equipment.
This will do it for you. It does the regular three stage converter profile, similar to your Boondocker, BUT it also has a single stage, adjustable voltage mode, which is what you desperately need right now.
You can set it to 14.8 eg, and it will stay there till you change it (with a little screwdriver)
Once the batts are as full as they can get, you can set 16v and run that for a while to see if their SG will recover. You can Float them afterwards at 13.6.
You need a 2000w generator to run it at 60 amps. If you only have a 1000w gen, you can get a 35 amp version of the LK DO NOT GET anything but an LK--you already have the older type which does not have the adjustable voltage feature these newer LKs have.
https://www.amazon.com/Powermax-PM3-60LK-Converter-Battery-Charger/dp/B01N4L1B6P/ref=sr_1_23?ie=UTF8&qid=1529328592&sr=8-23&keywords=powermax+converter
You can get a better idea of battery charging by reading this. It helped me a lot.
http://www.bestconverter.com/Books_c_67.html
Here is how to operate the LK see para 10
http://powermaxconverters.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/PM3-12V-LK-Manual-2018.pdf
