Charging a Battery Bank
I am planning on upgrading my batteries to 4 6v batteries wired in series and parallel to have a 12v system with plenty of Amp Hours. There is a ton of information on how to wire things up but nothing...
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BFL13 - Thanks for the info... I tried to PM you earlier but that wasn't allowed on your end...
I guess the word demanding is the issue. I do know on my 12V batteries if I am using 14.4VDC as charge voltage it will show 53AMPS DC current being drawn from my 60A source of power... If I had 200AMPS capacity in my battery charger it will still only show around 53AMPs which is determined by the batteries internal resistance I suspect. The only way for me to show more DC Current would be to raise the DC charge voltage... This is where I was coming from on using the word 'demanding'...
I will only have 14.4-13.6-13.2 DC voltages available using my 60AMPS PD9260C charger unit...
My fear was it would want to draw more than 60AMPS when I was using the 14.4VDC mode for the two groups of 6VDC GC2 batteries connected in series. I don't really want to purchase a larger current capacity Battery charger at this time. Stretching funds now living off retirement checks hehe...
The 4.6 hours will fit into my daily routine of charging the batteries when camping off grid at my normal camping spots. We have generator run time restriction big time around where I live here in Virginia. As soon as the batteries taper back to around 6-8AMPS for each battery then I will be able to switch to solar panels once I get those installed if I have good sun for the rest of the day. Hoping this will cut back on my generator use to just over an hour a day required.
The solar panel DC Current output looks like is going to be around 20AMPS total DC current for the three panels in high sun I will be installing on my POPUP roof...
Think I will be in good shape here doing this method of charging my batteries each day when camping off-grid...
Hopefully in a couple of months I can purchase the four T-105 batteries and will be able to see for myself what the DC Current status is going to be for my setup...
Thanks again for the rerun of answering my earlier question about this.
Roy Ken
King George, VA
I guess the word demanding is the issue. I do know on my 12V batteries if I am using 14.4VDC as charge voltage it will show 53AMPS DC current being drawn from my 60A source of power... If I had 200AMPS capacity in my battery charger it will still only show around 53AMPs which is determined by the batteries internal resistance I suspect. The only way for me to show more DC Current would be to raise the DC charge voltage... This is where I was coming from on using the word 'demanding'...
I will only have 14.4-13.6-13.2 DC voltages available using my 60AMPS PD9260C charger unit...
My fear was it would want to draw more than 60AMPS when I was using the 14.4VDC mode for the two groups of 6VDC GC2 batteries connected in series. I don't really want to purchase a larger current capacity Battery charger at this time. Stretching funds now living off retirement checks hehe...
The 4.6 hours will fit into my daily routine of charging the batteries when camping off grid at my normal camping spots. We have generator run time restriction big time around where I live here in Virginia. As soon as the batteries taper back to around 6-8AMPS for each battery then I will be able to switch to solar panels once I get those installed if I have good sun for the rest of the day. Hoping this will cut back on my generator use to just over an hour a day required.
The solar panel DC Current output looks like is going to be around 20AMPS total DC current for the three panels in high sun I will be installing on my POPUP roof...
Think I will be in good shape here doing this method of charging my batteries each day when camping off-grid...
Hopefully in a couple of months I can purchase the four T-105 batteries and will be able to see for myself what the DC Current status is going to be for my setup...
Thanks again for the rerun of answering my earlier question about this.
Roy Ken
King George, VA
