Charger selection help please
I'm thinking about buying a Noco Genius G26000 26a smart charger for when the sun isn't getting my batteries charged. I have a FR Stealth Toyhauler with two Interstate GC2 208ah batteries. They do...
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MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Many variables. Innumerable permutations. Curious as to why ypu did not employ the motor driven timer on your wheeled charger? Would have prevented overly high finishing voltage.
A fully programmable charger will shut itself off. Leaving the batteries at whatever state of charge is present. Have no surf access cannot read Noco opetating specs. Are the charge modes timed? If yes how does it know when to quit? Raised my eyebrows with the AGM modes voltages.
Try to avoid jumping from the frying pan into the fire. All modes of charging are compromises in one form or another. You need to arrange in ordinal your list of priorities then seek the least offensive manner of charging.
The wheeled charger is a Schumacher manual charger. Doesn't have timer or any auto mode. Once my batteries reached 15.3v I let the charger go for another hour. Volts went to 16.2 and the batteries were disconnected. So essentially I equalized the batteries.
The Noco manual doesn't go into details about whether absorption is timed or not. I will call them tomorrow and see if I can get any details.
I may just buy it and if it doesn't do a timed absorption I'll send it back and get a Megawatt and a timer.
