Meanwell is here!!

LittleBill wrote:

greenrvgreen wrote:
Bill, for me the goal is to maximize my charging speed from a 450 watt gennie that I use when tenting. My method will be to take the batts up from roughly 40% or 50% to 80% or so, and then finish with the 4a charger I already own. This after running my laptop and satellite TV all day while repleneshing with 200 watts of solar.

and what did this whole setup cost you? as far as im concerned your back to 1 stage charging when battery chargers are 3 stage and prolly cheaper?

i have used meanwells multiple times, but not for projects like this, they were designed for use to actually power stuff, not for actually charging, why were not picking up pd2145 or something similar just surprises me, i got mine brand new 100 bucks off ebay, and it does a wonderful job

to each their own

I bought a Mega Watt 35 -15V. Cost, delivered to my door, was $55. 33 amp charge rate. Delivers 15.6V, I already have a DMM and a DC Amp meter and a tiny phillips screw driver. I charge a Trojan 150 Amp 12v sweeper battery with mine. I basically run mine 70% to 85%-90 charged first thing in the morning. When that 33 amps charge falls off to about 8 amps charging rate, I shut things off and let solar panel do the top off at 15.0V. I usually use 35 -40 amps per day. 45 minutes of generator to get things done without worry of a POS WFCO never going into bulk mode to charge saves me a lot of hours on the generator motor and a lot of gas in the generator. Doing things quickly and efficiently is why I first went this route, again, at the suggestion of Mexicowanderer. I have yet to be steered wrong by the advice he provides here, to myself, and to others.