Problems with Boondocker 60 amp converter

DieselBurps wrote:
Would the adjustable voltage 75 amp Powermax charges accomplish the same thing as Megawatt or Meanwell? They are a little more pricey but as far as I can tell do the same thing but would put more amps in back into the batteries and faster.

You are welcome to buy one, test it thoroughly, find out, and report back to us if it does or doesn't.

I won't make blanket statements about brands of power supply units, or whether a MegaWatt or a Meanwell is better. I was probably the first one here to buy the MegaWatt and report, albeit not scientifically, that it flat out just works. It top charged my T-1275. I had an old school battery charger from Sears that I used to equalize charge my T-1275, so being limited to 15.56 or 15.6V was not a problem, for me, in my case.

I have since switched to a 150AH surplus Telecom AGM battery, that I got for a great price, so now 14.4V is the maximum voltage required for my current electrical needs. The MegaWatt does fine for this. It has not once even hinted of smelling funny or getting that dangerous blue smoke aroma that signals death is imminent. It just works as designed.

Pay your money, take your pick, if you have 6V batteries, set at 14.8v, perhaps a little higher if it's cold out, and a little lower if really hot out, say over 85 or 90F. Run them until your RC watt meter decreases the amperage take rate to about 1/15th to 1/20th the ampere hour output of your batteries. Then go top charge with solar panels. If you have 210 amp hours of battery at 12V, if your MegaWatt is charging at 14.8V and 10-14 amps of output, time to shut the generator off. It's done bulk charging, it's in a state of slow charging to top charge, no need to waste a bunch of gasoline to get so little an amount of results getting the battery top charged, let solar do the slow work.