Best battery charger options
I’m running (2) 6v 215AH gc2’s wired in series for a 12 volt system. I am trying to figure out the best/quickest way to charge them with a generator. We will have limited times where we can use the g...
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Too little information - are these GC2s you have flooded or AGM? If the latter they'd benefit greatly from temperature compensated charging which very few converters are capable of. If they're Trojan brand batts they'll need a 14.8 volt bulk charging rate, not 14.4 volt which is the conventional standard for most converters. Any WFCO is an especially poor choice because although it's spec'd to do 14.4 volt bulk charge almost no one ever sees that but something closer to 13.6 volts which just isn't going to do it. Do you insist on fully automatic charging or are you willing to babysit a manually controlled charger? Lots of questions need answering to make the right choice for your particular situation. ;) And FWIW, you won't get much put back into these batts with your vehicle by just driving around - if that's important to you then you should be investing in a DC > DC charger such as those offered by CTEK and Redarc.
