Pulled the trigger on my 12V system
About 6 weeks ago, I noticed (with my inexpensive 12V meter mounted in the face of the kitchen counter) that my converter wasn't charging above 12.5V when plugged in to shore power (it had always been...
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You did everything right except believe the Victron when you say the batts got to 100% after an hour of recharge. If you don't take the above advice and charge those 6s to 15.x volts every so often, they will sulfate and you will be back in the soup.
BTW that "equalize" the converter does is not the same thing as a real equalize/top charge/full charge so don't be fooled by that.
It seems a 14.4v converter cannot ever meet the specs required to handle 6v batts, but people do get some years from them even so. It is hard to get the truth on that from anecdotal posts on this forum where you can't check the batteries yourself to be sure everyone is speaking the same language.
You can look after 6s properly for sure using the VEC1093DBD for the 15v tasks as well as the converter for normal tasks.
BTW that "equalize" the converter does is not the same thing as a real equalize/top charge/full charge so don't be fooled by that.
It seems a 14.4v converter cannot ever meet the specs required to handle 6v batts, but people do get some years from them even so. It is hard to get the truth on that from anecdotal posts on this forum where you can't check the batteries yourself to be sure everyone is speaking the same language.
You can look after 6s properly for sure using the VEC1093DBD for the 15v tasks as well as the converter for normal tasks.
