PD or Iota for my upgrade?
I'm thinking about a converter and battery upgrade. The batteries will be wet cell lead acid 6 volt Possible T-105s or the 230AH, EGC2 from Sam's club. I'll probably go for four. (Does nayone have...
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Yes, a resistive load will tell you what the PD can do if you want to heat water in a bucket using a spool of wire as the heating element. It tells us little in regards to charging a battery.
I see no need for lab conditions to determine if the PD can output rated current into a RV battery for more than a split second. The test bed is the RV. The power source is a generator or shore power. There's history of the PD not being able to output 14.4V (during the first hour of charging) During this time charging current tapers.
Go ahead run the test.
Sal
I see no need for lab conditions to determine if the PD can output rated current into a RV battery for more than a split second. The test bed is the RV. The power source is a generator or shore power. There's history of the PD not being able to output 14.4V (during the first hour of charging) During this time charging current tapers.
Go ahead run the test.
Sal
Wayne Dohnal wrote:the steady state DC resistance model will tell you what the charger can do - the best performance it is capable of achieving.
If there's an additional PD-specific issue related to the battery not being a pure resistive load, I've never ventured there. With the many variables associated with the batteries, I don't see how anything short of near lab conditions could provide data that's valid for comparison. I certainly don't have the capability of creating repeatable conditions with a battery.
