Honda Generator
What Honda generator is the best one to get for my travel trailer? I would really only be using it to charge my batteries every other day.
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The battery determines how much current it will want to draw from the source. You could have 100amps sitting there available to use and the battery will only draw up to around 20AMPS of DC CURRENT when first hit with 14.4VDC BOOST charge voltage. The DC CURRENT will start dropping back as the battery takes on charge until it gets to FLOAT charge mode. The DC Charge CURRENT is now only demanding around 6 DC AMPs or so now.
If you take a DC VOLTMETER and monitor what the automobile alternator system is doing when it is charging batteries you will notice these same charge voltages that our RV converter are producing.
Battery Science for deep cycle batteries tells us if we hit a 50% discharged deep cycle battery it will take around three hours time to re-charge back up to its 90% charge state. It will take around 12 hours to re-charge up to a full 100% charge state. We can use our batteries to almost full performance for a number of 50% to 90% charge cycle states but must do a full 100% charge cycle after 12-14 cycles of 50-90% charge states or start doing damage to the batteries. This is explained pretty good in most of the Progressive Dynamics manuals for their PD series converters.
At least that is how it works here hehe... I'm sure the EXPORTS on here can explain it better than I have here in simple laymans terms... Me just a farm boy from Southern Ill Horse creek country...
Back in the old days the local car guy would use a 50VDC battery charger running with a good 100-150AMPS DC current available and would recharge your battery is some real short time periods. He might also sometimes blow the top off of the battery which I have observed once when I was a kid.
We are apparently much smarter in these modern times recharging batteries
Roy Ken
If you take a DC VOLTMETER and monitor what the automobile alternator system is doing when it is charging batteries you will notice these same charge voltages that our RV converter are producing.
Battery Science for deep cycle batteries tells us if we hit a 50% discharged deep cycle battery it will take around three hours time to re-charge back up to its 90% charge state. It will take around 12 hours to re-charge up to a full 100% charge state. We can use our batteries to almost full performance for a number of 50% to 90% charge cycle states but must do a full 100% charge cycle after 12-14 cycles of 50-90% charge states or start doing damage to the batteries. This is explained pretty good in most of the Progressive Dynamics manuals for their PD series converters.
At least that is how it works here hehe... I'm sure the EXPORTS on here can explain it better than I have here in simple laymans terms... Me just a farm boy from Southern Ill Horse creek country...
Back in the old days the local car guy would use a 50VDC battery charger running with a good 100-150AMPS DC current available and would recharge your battery is some real short time periods. He might also sometimes blow the top off of the battery which I have observed once when I was a kid.
We are apparently much smarter in these modern times recharging batteries
Roy Ken
