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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mena661 wrote:DryCamper11 wrote:No but it won't start the charging process until it does its check.
Are you saying the IQ4 shuts off the charging current from the charger and then checks battery voltage while there is no voltage drop from current flow in the charge cables?
Ok. However, doing a voltage check at the start of a charge cycle won't tell the charger much about the status of the batteries, which is what it needs to know to decide where to pick up in its charge profile (i.e. whether to start in boost/bulk or in normal/absorption, and how long to stay in those modes).
The ideal method to make those decisions is to measure the specific gravity, and know the battery AH capacity. That's the only way to really know what the charge state of the battery is. However, that's not practical, so most chargers just make a guess, based on the initial voltage and then use time and/or voltage change to decide when to exit the boost/bulk mode.
