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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Salvo wrote:
Given the 1V line drop, most likely the IQ4 was functioning at the time of the test.
Your analogy of hare and tortoise is a stretch. Yea, the tortoise will win if you cut off the front legs of the hare.
You don't really need the IQ4 to get higher voltages than 13.4V. One can purchase a plug-in that sets the voltage higher than base line. You would need to manually un-plug it to drop voltage.
SalKendallP wrote:
Isn't it also the IQ4 that pushes the unit to 14.6V? Without it, even using the manual switch, would it not be limited to 14.2?
Heh heh heh. Yeah. And I'm sure an engineer could hotrod the heck out of it, too.
Should IOTA market strictly to EEs, or, perhaps to the general RVing public? The job of the IQ4 is to control all charging modes... simply... via a plug and play module for the everyman.
And I think I was clear that the chart was not a typical scenario. The tortoise and the hare was meant as a simple analogy to explain what can happen if you oversize the converter to the bank and/or cabling resistance, i.e. if you cut the hare's legs off, yes.
Size 'em right and they can scream!
Leave it to you to find a way to argue with someone who agrees with you. :)
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