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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Salvo wrote:
Ok, here are 3 converters in the same spot.
55A Iota
60A PD (same graph as earlier)
Parallex 7345 (installed by Winnebago in MH)
The Iota is clearly the winner when charging from 50 to 90% soc. I don't think it's realistic to charge to 100% with gen.
So the IOTA starts at 14.8 volts and can still only muster 44 amps of the 55 rating. (or is this a single group 24?) This really shows how poor the wiring is, not how bad an IOTA is doing. Same unrealistic fault is put on the PD.
OK so the IOTA is a bit faster. That is not really the point of the thread. And certainly any power supply that is modified to compensate for the poor install will out perform.
I calculated the first 15 minutes at 5 amp/hrs and the next 45 at about 2. So you are a whopping 7 amp/hours ahead in a race. But mostly this thread is about water usage.
Is there a graph on usage 13.54 vs 13.2 float?
