lithium question
Can you charge lithium batteries with a regular charger or do I need to buy a special charger?
Forum Discussion
More idle thoughts:
You could stash the LFP and its inverter in the tow vehicle. Run the extension cord from it to the trailer shore power cord.
Note the 45 minutes won't put many AH back in even doing 50-80s.
Say you have a 60 amp charger and you are down 100AH /50%. 45 minutes will get you 45AH (minus a few for heat) so you are now at 145AH and you used 100 the first day, so by next day you are down another 100 to 45AH remaining.
Conserving to 50AH a day means you are down to 150/ 75% and where Bulk ends so your 60 amps will taper from the start doing the 75-90 so it will take longer. ( You don't do past 90 on generator on low amps and waste a lot of gen fuel for little return.) So you only are back to 180AH- restored 30AH of that 50. Next day you are down another 50 to 130AH and so on.
You could splurge the first day to get down to 50% and then do 50-90s. but in any case you will be running the gen for a couple hours a day or even longer depending, so you will need lots of propane or gasoline for it. Doesn't help if they are LFP--an AH is an AH no matter where it came from.
Having an EV for a TV you can plug into is very interesting--IMO that is the way to go if available. Nobody cares about efficiency while camping. You just want to get to tomorrow without freezing in the dark.
You could stash the LFP and its inverter in the tow vehicle. Run the extension cord from it to the trailer shore power cord.
Note the 45 minutes won't put many AH back in even doing 50-80s.
Say you have a 60 amp charger and you are down 100AH /50%. 45 minutes will get you 45AH (minus a few for heat) so you are now at 145AH and you used 100 the first day, so by next day you are down another 100 to 45AH remaining.
Conserving to 50AH a day means you are down to 150/ 75% and where Bulk ends so your 60 amps will taper from the start doing the 75-90 so it will take longer. ( You don't do past 90 on generator on low amps and waste a lot of gen fuel for little return.) So you only are back to 180AH- restored 30AH of that 50. Next day you are down another 50 to 130AH and so on.
You could splurge the first day to get down to 50% and then do 50-90s. but in any case you will be running the gen for a couple hours a day or even longer depending, so you will need lots of propane or gasoline for it. Doesn't help if they are LFP--an AH is an AH no matter where it came from.
Having an EV for a TV you can plug into is very interesting--IMO that is the way to go if available. Nobody cares about efficiency while camping. You just want to get to tomorrow without freezing in the dark.
