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I just finished sticking a 200-watt adjustable DC to DC booster atop a 94-watt power supply brick. The danged booster actually regulates the brick -lower- than it's nominal 12.72 open circuit voltage. The brick pumps out a cool 6.22 amps at 14.7 volts. But it's meant to float the Lifeline at 13.3 volts.

That Meanwell has a remote voltage sense lead line. It would be a great power supply for a smaller rig allowing the main charger to do a job on the batteries. The Meanwell is a cleaner power supply than the normal RV converter.

Not happy with the meters that arrived for the Borg. Too small numbers. Too dim. Lousy sampling rate. I may go with an analog ammeter and digital voltmeter.

I have the micrometer adjustment knobs and Bourns 10-turn 2-watt pots. I need to get a-hold of a die-maker's type rotary grinder and a good 1/8" carbide router bit. Time to get the Borg finished.

BTW the 16.0 volt power bricks from MPJA.com work perfect.

The MW Se-450-12 Spec sheet claims it shuts down on overload, instead of claiming constant current limiting on overload.

http://www.meanwell.com/search/se-450/SE-450-spec.pdf

If your battery is depleted enough to max out this unit, it will likely cycle on and off,

Instead of holding a solid 40 amps until Absorption voltage is neared, like my MeanWell rsp-500-15.

The se-450-12 also lista a maximum voltage of 13.5v, but likely goes higher.

My rsp-500-15 claims a maximum voltage of 16.5 but actually goes to 19.23v. Take that sulfation... Bwahahahahuuhahahaaaaa.

I do not think the se-450-15 is a good unit for battery charging applications. Perhaps for being a power source at float voltages, but fast charging, or EQ'ing, the megawatt will outperform it.

A shame the MW RSP-500-15 is on backorder at most sites, but I think it was well worth the 127$ I paid for it with tax and shipping last September