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jcrhea
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Feb 06, 2016

Converter Questions - Replacement and want to charge faster

All - I have a WFCO 8955PEC in my Class C RV. It has a 4kW generator in it I use to charge the batteries when off grid. I have two questions - 1. It charges slowly when my 2 12V deep cycle ba...
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brulaz
Explorer
Feb 07, 2016
beemerphile1 wrote:
You could always keep the WFCO and add a portable charger. There is no harm in having both.


I did something similar.

Switch the batteries out of the trailer's 12V circuits when 120VAC is available and use the WFCO strictly as a converter to run the 12V appliances.

Originally used a portable charger to maintain the seprated batts. But then mounted a PD for use as a charger only, and backup converter in case the WFCO dies.

Then I added solar on top of it all ...
Batteries seem pretty happy.

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