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pnichols
Mar 23, 2015Explorer II
... and just to make sure that it's perfectly clear what "temperature compensation" means with respect to a battery charger (IMHO engineering guesstimate): It means the charger voltage-compensates for the temperature of the air as detected right close to the exterior surface of the battery - NOT the temperature of the air around the charger itself or directly on the surface of the battery.
If my guestimate is correct, this means that it makes no sense to try and use the Paramode charger (or any other temperature compensated charger) as "stand alone" ... or without it's remote temperature detection probe being routed over to, and attached someway very close to, the outer suface of the battery.
Compensating for the air temperature somewhere right close to the battery is the only method that makes any sense with respect to the temperature versus charging voltage charts that seem to imply how to charge a battery, voltage-wise, in the various camping or storage temperatures the battery is sitting in.
If my guestimate is correct, this means that it makes no sense to try and use the Paramode charger (or any other temperature compensated charger) as "stand alone" ... or without it's remote temperature detection probe being routed over to, and attached someway very close to, the outer suface of the battery.
Compensating for the air temperature somewhere right close to the battery is the only method that makes any sense with respect to the temperature versus charging voltage charts that seem to imply how to charge a battery, voltage-wise, in the various camping or storage temperatures the battery is sitting in.
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