RobertL0 wrote:
Voltage remained at 13.8 throughout the 40 minute recharge.
The amps going into the battery did not change as I went from a blinking light, hit the button, to the solid light, No change at all
Just the fact of the amps dropping off so fast on these depleted batteries, give a clue of a defective unit?
Regards
When the PD converter is pushing maximum amps @ 13.6 going to 14.2 will change nothing amperage wise.
When the converter initially comes online it will put in a high amperage as the battery accepts a "surface charge" this amperage will decrease rather rapidly till the battery starts accepting its stable chargeing current. This current will decrease at a far slower rate as the charge progresses.
Even a fully charged battery that is allowed to dissipate its surface charge and has returned to 12.5VDC will initially accept a large amperage that will drop quickly.
