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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landyacht318 wrote:
Withuot being able to bring and hold the bateries to a proper absorption voltage for a proper duration and possibly perform an EQ charge afterwards, there will likley be no improvement to the battery condition, and just a lesson in futility.
Getting a charging source to do what is needed, seems to be impossible when there is anything 'smart' and 'automatic' involved, and the WFCO is a drooling knuckledragger that tries to be smart and automatic.
Get the batteries to 14.8v, hold them there until amps taper to ~1% of capacity. Then slowly Raise voltage to 16.2v, hold then there until specific gravity no longer rises or amps start increasing along with a fast rising battery temperature.
Adjustable voltage power supplies might be manual chargers, requiring a human to decide what voltage to allow and for how long, but at least they can actually fully recharge a battery and not require sacrifices to chango while hopping backwards of one foot counterclockwise chanting 'just fine; just fine, everything will be just fine'
Hooked cables to the pair of 6v batts using my old Centeck set on 40amps....can't adjust anything. Only accepting 20a...I think. No reading from Trimetric. This charger has the voltage steady at 16.1v instead of up till now only 13.6v. So far after 30 minutes the bubbling fluids read 1.250SG uniformly over the 6 cells. I'll just keep an eye on SG and temperature?
