Modified my Schumacher
Model number sc2500a. No longer in production. This Charger works pretty nicely as a converter, on the 12 amp setting, handling such cycling loads as a ~2.7 amp compressor fridge and a 6.2 amp mat...
Forum Discussion
Randy wants $155 for new style PM4 45amper
http://www.bestconverter.com/PowerMax-PM4B-45-45-Amp-4-Stage-ConverterCharger_p_412.html
but boatandrv wants $103 for the old style PM3-45
http://www.boatandrvaccessories.com/f102.html
IMO you could live with the PM3 for your application. (it needs the batts to be really low to go into boost, same as a WFCO, but if you are in a hurry, you have the Shu, and you follow it with solar anyway, so you don't care that the PM3 drops to 13.6 as soon as it gets to 14.6 should it ever do boost in the first place)
Bottom line is you could well be happy with a PM3 version AFAIK. It has its place for some ways of Rving.
(I have the PM3-100, but I took the lid off and cranked up the internal voltage pot to 14.8, so now it acts like a 100a Vector, but to be a 13.6 converter I would have to crank that voltage back down---you are not looking at that sort of thing )
http://www.bestconverter.com/PowerMax-PM4B-45-45-Amp-4-Stage-ConverterCharger_p_412.html
but boatandrv wants $103 for the old style PM3-45
http://www.boatandrvaccessories.com/f102.html
IMO you could live with the PM3 for your application. (it needs the batts to be really low to go into boost, same as a WFCO, but if you are in a hurry, you have the Shu, and you follow it with solar anyway, so you don't care that the PM3 drops to 13.6 as soon as it gets to 14.6 should it ever do boost in the first place)
Bottom line is you could well be happy with a PM3 version AFAIK. It has its place for some ways of Rving.
(I have the PM3-100, but I took the lid off and cranked up the internal voltage pot to 14.8, so now it acts like a 100a Vector, but to be a 13.6 converter I would have to crank that voltage back down---you are not looking at that sort of thing )
