PD4655 Charging Graph
I have been reading quite a bit about different converters and charge rates, specifically some claims that PD's seem to drop off earlier than other brands. That is not what I have noticed on my setup,...
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"I started the test and began recording data. I didn't realize it for the first 6 minutes but the converter was not in "boost" mode. I gained around 0.6A by going into boost mode. I was current limited at that point still so the difference didn't amount to much in the total charge time. "
I am wondering if this has distorted the result more than suspected. You avoided the possible "voltage spike" at start-up that causes immediate tapering in some cases. Or--maybe there would not have been such a spike.
(Some with Honda 1000s kick off with 13.6 using their Charge Wizards and then swap over to 14.4 after a while when the Honda 1000 can carry the load.---question is whether you did that same thing in a sort of way)
Now that you have the bug to keep track of these things, no doubt on subsequent recharges that will become known.
Salvo suggests that a low charging rate might be an essential part of this success story. If it is then the PD would not work for me, where I like a high charging rate around 25% or so.
OTOH, to get that, I had to modify my PowerMax to do 14.8 Vabs and now it will not do anything else but 14.8 once it gets there--no drop to 13.6 and 13.2 later on. So I need a second charger to be the shore power and float charger.
If the PD could do a reasonable version of constant amps at a higher charging rate than Salvo suggests it could, then it would be a single do it all converter. But can it? So far none of the usual suspect converters is good at everything.
I am wondering if this has distorted the result more than suspected. You avoided the possible "voltage spike" at start-up that causes immediate tapering in some cases. Or--maybe there would not have been such a spike.
(Some with Honda 1000s kick off with 13.6 using their Charge Wizards and then swap over to 14.4 after a while when the Honda 1000 can carry the load.---question is whether you did that same thing in a sort of way)
Now that you have the bug to keep track of these things, no doubt on subsequent recharges that will become known.
Salvo suggests that a low charging rate might be an essential part of this success story. If it is then the PD would not work for me, where I like a high charging rate around 25% or so.
OTOH, to get that, I had to modify my PowerMax to do 14.8 Vabs and now it will not do anything else but 14.8 once it gets there--no drop to 13.6 and 13.2 later on. So I need a second charger to be the shore power and float charger.
If the PD could do a reasonable version of constant amps at a higher charging rate than Salvo suggests it could, then it would be a single do it all converter. But can it? So far none of the usual suspect converters is good at everything.
