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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I decided to bring the details of recharging up the bank back here instead of abusing niners thread even more.
To bring the thread up to date, we took the bank camping and saw much fun. The last few days were cloudy and the system fell behind, once at home and resting, it was 12.5v. I put it on the megawatt at 14.4v until my clamp meter showed well under 10a draw, that took 9 hours. Rested again the bank was 13.05v which is too low.
I took the bank apart and the low battery dropped .02v below the other two. I put the MW on it at 14.4v but the clamp on is showing nearly nothing and the MW is running extremely cool. I'll use another meter to confirm the draw and if so, move it up to 15.4v again. The last conditioning charge got it above 13v, lets see what another does I guess.
One of the things that allowed us to continue as normal when it got cloudy is that most of the loads are such that they will run off the solar system. That means they are not a large draw when it's cloudy too.
To bring the thread up to date, we took the bank camping and saw much fun. The last few days were cloudy and the system fell behind, once at home and resting, it was 12.5v. I put it on the megawatt at 14.4v until my clamp meter showed well under 10a draw, that took 9 hours. Rested again the bank was 13.05v which is too low.
I took the bank apart and the low battery dropped .02v below the other two. I put the MW on it at 14.4v but the clamp on is showing nearly nothing and the MW is running extremely cool. I'll use another meter to confirm the draw and if so, move it up to 15.4v again. The last conditioning charge got it above 13v, lets see what another does I guess.
One of the things that allowed us to continue as normal when it got cloudy is that most of the loads are such that they will run off the solar system. That means they are not a large draw when it's cloudy too.
