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 wrote:
Before I got the Trimetric it was hard to know when to stop the generator at the desired battery SOC, with only a voltmeter to go by. It was really guessing. That was a big problem for me. I don't know how others can tell, if they even can. The Vector portable with the ammeter on it was a blessing for that. Converters don't have ammeter displays.
I'm curious as to why you spent the money for a Trimetric instead of just going for the far less expensive route of permanently installing an ammeter in your battery system?
As you know, you could have just used a voltmeter to pretty well tell when the batteries needed to be charged ... and then periodically glanced at the ammeter during charging to see when it reads zero or near zero to indicate when the batteries are fully charged. (Of course we have discussed this approach many times in the past. ;) )
