PD Converters and Water Usage
For Dry Campers Only No secret I've been a fan of PD converters for 15 yrs or more, and for more than one reason. The PD maintains my batteries every day of the year, except for the 4-5 months that...
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Fisherguy posted his results showing the more usual tapering amps of the PD that others have also reported.
Then ah64id posted his results where he has very low resistance wiring between his PD4655 and the batteries where the amps were much better in the Bulk stage with hardly any tapering.
ISTR somebody else (sorry can't remember who right now) managed to get his PD working quite well by doing some special work, but it still had the taper to it, just not very much.
When I say "lame amps" I mean more like what Fisherguy and the others get compared with true constant amps in Bulk (NO tapering) that you get with PowerMax, Iota, and WFCO (when working!), Xantrex, and the rest, without having to go crazy on the wiring or modify its circuit board.
When you only get 40 amps from a "45" amper and then the thing doesn't even hold at 40 but slides down into the 30s, that is "lame"!
The advice to just buy a 55 if you want a 45 equivalent is pathetic.
However PD does have that magic Charge Wizard so you can keep your voltage up, which is a huge advantage over the other brands (except the WFCO 68100)
My solution is to avoid all that by having an adjustable voltage converter of the type that does true constant amps in Bulk. In my case that is a PowerMax as that is the only one on offer AFAIK. It works great! :)
Then ah64id posted his results where he has very low resistance wiring between his PD4655 and the batteries where the amps were much better in the Bulk stage with hardly any tapering.
ISTR somebody else (sorry can't remember who right now) managed to get his PD working quite well by doing some special work, but it still had the taper to it, just not very much.
When I say "lame amps" I mean more like what Fisherguy and the others get compared with true constant amps in Bulk (NO tapering) that you get with PowerMax, Iota, and WFCO (when working!), Xantrex, and the rest, without having to go crazy on the wiring or modify its circuit board.
When you only get 40 amps from a "45" amper and then the thing doesn't even hold at 40 but slides down into the 30s, that is "lame"!
The advice to just buy a 55 if you want a 45 equivalent is pathetic.
However PD does have that magic Charge Wizard so you can keep your voltage up, which is a huge advantage over the other brands (except the WFCO 68100)
My solution is to avoid all that by having an adjustable voltage converter of the type that does true constant amps in Bulk. In my case that is a PowerMax as that is the only one on offer AFAIK. It works great! :)
