B&D VEC1093DBD vs Mega Watt S-350-12
As some of you know I have a bank of four CR235's in series parallel. And you also know that I have a Mega Watt S-350-12 that I have to top charge them. And that it takes a long time for the batteries...
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I’m still getting to know the B&D VEC1093-BDB that I bought recently. If others are getting 14.8 or so volts maximum, I wonder whether there may be differences in different editions of the same model charger.
After charging the batteries with the on-board Heart inverter/charger recently, I took advantage of a good weather day yesterday to top-charge with the VEC1093.
On the house batteries, I set it at the 40-amp rate and it wasn’t long before it started tapering the amps input. I can’t recall that I checked the voltage with the initial charging. When it had tapered to the point where I was sure it was in Absorption mode, I found it was feeding the batteries 15.3-something volts. I got the same result with 2 different digital voltmeters. After 2.5 hours it had finished with top-charging 4 Deka Group 27 dual-purpose batteries.
I switched it to the chassis batteries. It immediately tapered the amps to a very small rate. Voltage was again 15.3-something. It declared the chassis batteries FUL within 10 minutes.
I did not run the Recondition or Equalize mode on either set of batteries.
Wayne
After charging the batteries with the on-board Heart inverter/charger recently, I took advantage of a good weather day yesterday to top-charge with the VEC1093.
On the house batteries, I set it at the 40-amp rate and it wasn’t long before it started tapering the amps input. I can’t recall that I checked the voltage with the initial charging. When it had tapered to the point where I was sure it was in Absorption mode, I found it was feeding the batteries 15.3-something volts. I got the same result with 2 different digital voltmeters. After 2.5 hours it had finished with top-charging 4 Deka Group 27 dual-purpose batteries.
I switched it to the chassis batteries. It immediately tapered the amps to a very small rate. Voltage was again 15.3-something. It declared the chassis batteries FUL within 10 minutes.
I did not run the Recondition or Equalize mode on either set of batteries.
Wayne
