Battle Born Charging
This might answer some recent questions. The table is not accurate wrt to the BB comments--don't go by it by the table itself. Wade through the questions and answers to get the true picture. Tak...
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BFL13 wrote:Mobilesport wrote:
I was told to not use a voltmeter to try and determine soc% except at the very end when I hit 14.4 volts .
How/where did you see distortion ?
Let me know and I'll look into It and try to find a problem.
EDIT--here's another thing using your numbers. In the second hour, in the first half SOC went from 28-45% a rise of 17%. Instead of half of 53= 26.5
In the second half SOC went from 45-73% a rise of 28% (instead of 26.5)
BUT amps stayed at 53 the whole time. How can that be?
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Most of the distortion was in the first hour when amps stayed at near 53 for 53AH, but the percentage SOC said only 28%
53-28 = 25AH, which is most of that 33AH it went over.
It's like it didn't start the % SOC count until 25 amps had already been put out by the charger, but it is not quite like that because there was also 8AH missing in the second hour. Then it was on for the last 48 minutes. So it gets better with higher SOC.
Your plan to operate between 30% and up will keep you mostly clear of whatever is "wrong" at the low end. I think you are good to go for operating your BB the way you intend otherwise.
The wiring hot spot, converter mystery for max amps, and monitor questions are just other things of interest with your own situation AFAIK.
The only thing that I can think of off the top of my mind is maybe I turned my diesal heater on , when I first start it up I think it draws high amps , not sure how many but probably at least 10 amps could be more , and then alot of times when I first start the heater I run it at full blast (4.5 amps) for about 5 thru 8 minutes to get the room up to temp then I dial it back to low 1.5 amps , but I don't remember if I did that during the test but I'll be watching the numbers in the future.
There was a point that I turned eco throttle off on the genset trying to see if the amps would go higher , the amps did'nt go higher and so I shut eco throttle back off , I think I did that before that red line that's on the chart.
Eco throttle was off for about 3 minutes.
