New 14.8V Progressive Dynanics Converters
Just stumbled across this. Has anyone seen these yet? Some of us would be REAL interested to see some test results on these. It would seem reasonable to ASSume that the charge rate should be a fa...
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KendallP wrote:DrewE wrote:
Just a note: PD converters don't always start in boost mode. It depends on the battery voltage (I think over a period of time)...
Hmm. Good to know. Bigfootford says his always has for something like a decade now. And his is oversized for the bank.
Now how would a converter with no power to it know the battery voltage over a period of time? Or do you mean more like a few seconds once you put power to it?
Drew is correct...
Battery voltage needs to be below 12.4 or so for the PD to drop into boost mode.
Any standard converter, Iota, Parallax, Boondocker, Wfco, PD will be alive and watch the battery voltage even if shore power is not on. They all will switch to Boost when the threshold of low voltage is met.
To get most of these converters to get into boost mode you need to remove the battery and shore power and wait until the capacitors bleed off or turn on a light....
PD is one of the few that you can push a button and get the converter into any mode you want. WFCO copied this idea with their most recent panel mounted 89 and 87 series converters from what I have read.
Jim
