Charging the Lifelines questions
As you all know, anything more than clipping the auto charger onto a battery is well above my pay grade, so I have some questions. For the regular charge before the conditioning charge, the Lifelin...
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Not capacity CAPABILITY. looking for sulfation and YES comparing current meter values with original meter testing is an absolutely valid. This is a comparison not a hard value test. If a higher impedance value is found or lower load test voltage is seen at the same ambient temperature, what would be YOUR deduction?
To be clear about this Concorde's capacity test is absolutely the precise way to EVALUATE the capacity of a VRB. But much like their zero tolerance voltage values it is too cumbersome for casual testing. Both are befitting a knothead engineer like myself. I sure as shooting am NOT going to do a lab test monthly to see if my float voltage is too low. First of all it really exercises the plates, it consumes an enormous amount of time and effort and thirdly I believe if you review that manual the capacity test is if you SUSPECT the battery has lost capacity, perform the capacity test.
A 14.8 volt fast shot charge is the way to determine if float voltage has been set too low. An impedance test serves to alert the user yes/no impedence has increased. Time for a conditioning charge. Repeat impedence test. If still too high perform the all out rehabilitation as outlined in the manual. BadBoy! You get a rap across the knuckles for sloppy maintenance.
Don't forget to fully utilize the ampere hour meter.
My admiration for CONCORDE'S strictness is much like seeing a realistic movie of Marine Boot Camp and the DI from Hell. I smirk. Someone should provide a no nonsense baseline for theiretically perfect AGM management. Try your best to gain theoretically perfect voltages and temperarure compensation. But few recruits will perform the Manual of Arms to .001 second perfection. The hocus-pocus incongruities between battery and charger versus temperature would drive a person nuttier than a ---- house rat. I chose the coward's way out with a Wheel of Fortune 10-turn pot. Charger manufacturer's need to go BACKWARDS 20-years and study how Trace had this all figured out. But a serious float maintainer is needed. One that uses a standard telephone wire between battery temp sensor and float charger.
Beware of battery temps above 110F. I cease all float charging. If gates of hell temps continue I bring the batteries inside. But two tenths of a volt up from recommended values is no crisis. Ahem is your DMM THAT ACCURATE? I can just imagine the engineers at Concorde, goose-stepping their employees. Like Rolls & Surrette, a quest for perfection...
To be clear about this Concorde's capacity test is absolutely the precise way to EVALUATE the capacity of a VRB. But much like their zero tolerance voltage values it is too cumbersome for casual testing. Both are befitting a knothead engineer like myself. I sure as shooting am NOT going to do a lab test monthly to see if my float voltage is too low. First of all it really exercises the plates, it consumes an enormous amount of time and effort and thirdly I believe if you review that manual the capacity test is if you SUSPECT the battery has lost capacity, perform the capacity test.
A 14.8 volt fast shot charge is the way to determine if float voltage has been set too low. An impedance test serves to alert the user yes/no impedence has increased. Time for a conditioning charge. Repeat impedence test. If still too high perform the all out rehabilitation as outlined in the manual. BadBoy! You get a rap across the knuckles for sloppy maintenance.
Don't forget to fully utilize the ampere hour meter.
My admiration for CONCORDE'S strictness is much like seeing a realistic movie of Marine Boot Camp and the DI from Hell. I smirk. Someone should provide a no nonsense baseline for theiretically perfect AGM management. Try your best to gain theoretically perfect voltages and temperarure compensation. But few recruits will perform the Manual of Arms to .001 second perfection. The hocus-pocus incongruities between battery and charger versus temperature would drive a person nuttier than a ---- house rat. I chose the coward's way out with a Wheel of Fortune 10-turn pot. Charger manufacturer's need to go BACKWARDS 20-years and study how Trace had this all figured out. But a serious float maintainer is needed. One that uses a standard telephone wire between battery temp sensor and float charger.
Beware of battery temps above 110F. I cease all float charging. If gates of hell temps continue I bring the batteries inside. But two tenths of a volt up from recommended values is no crisis. Ahem is your DMM THAT ACCURATE? I can just imagine the engineers at Concorde, goose-stepping their employees. Like Rolls & Surrette, a quest for perfection...
