Charging Battery More Efficiently

pnichols wrote:

landyacht318 wrote:
The meanwell/megawatts have very small voltage adjustment dials requiring insertion of a jewelers screwdriver and a fine touch,

That's an inexcusable design flub right there. A 10-turn pot is not necessary ... a 3/4-turn one is OK ... with a large knob and a scale around the perimeter.

No, it's an inexcusable operator flub, when the person fiddles with the setting constantly, knowing it is originally designed as a power supply unit, but is being employed outside it's original design scope when being used as a charge controller instead, and as a bulk charging single stage charger, at that, strictly for bulk charging while dry camping, to get your flooded lead acid batteries to a 90% SOC, as quickly and as efficiently as a hard working generator burning expensive gasoline will allow. It's an operating parameter limitation, by design.

I would suggest in your case sticking with your free Honda EX650 and a 3 stage charger, if you are worried about the pot on a meanwell or a Mega Watt being inadequate, especially if after all these years, you don't comprehend what Mexicowanderer has been posting for over a year now about using PSU's as a dry camping single stage, bulk charging device only. Modify at your own peril, as landyacht has done, but he knows exactly what he is doing in these areas in attempting to recharge batteries.