Napa 85-5000 battery charger manual
Does anyone know where I can get a manual for a Napa 85-5000 battery charger? My dad is using one of these chargers to charge 8 GC2 batteries in his offgrid cabin. It's not an RV, but the setup is...
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pianotuna wrote:
Hi,
TripLite is a high quality MSW inverter.
Forget the induction cook top--they require pure sine wave.
I would buy one dimable LED 120 volt bulb and try it.
115 minutes is the "reserve capacity". There is an approximate formula for conversion to amp-hours at the 20 hour rate. Check the wobbly wide web.
A good guess may be 200 amp-hours per battery. Since the system is 24 volts that gives you 400 amp-hours X 24 v = 9600 watts. Of which you can use 4800 safely.
In your shoes I'd start by fully charging each individual battery, then equalize and finally desulphate.
Since there are 8 you could keep four "in service" while treating the other four one at a time. The catch will be time as desulphating can take over 24 hours per jar.
In any event, get solar.
Sounds like a winning plan.
I'll buy a couple of different bulbs and see how they work. I'll give tripplite a call. Maybe they know what bulbs I can use.
Step 1) Solar panel.
Step 2) Bring batteries home and hopefully recover them
If the batteries are shot I'll drop down to 2 x 12V * 100A (2400watt) which will give me 1200 usable watts which is still way more than I need. I could probably use 1 battery and get a nice small sinewave inverter and be ok also. On the rare times I need more power I could fire up the generator.
