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NinerBikes
Apr 29, 2014Explorer
MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Honorable two 33 amp chargers.
One 30 amp DPDT relay
One ADJUSTABLE TIMER CONTROL to control the DPDT relay coil
33 amperes of charging power bulk and absorbsion first charger
33 amperes of FLOAT power with second charger
YOU and not Hwang Lo Lee set absorbsion voltage and absorsbsion TIME via adjustable timer module relay control. Some digital timers can INTERVAL CHARGE. Get honorable idea from this? Relay is break before make, cannot parallel chargers. Impossible.
You and no one else sets this COMPONENT PACKAGE UP. Voltage, and time.
Have a huge converter? That's fine. Turn it off Use the above and top charge. The 33 amp 2nd charger FLOAT ABILITY does not kick voltage up when the unit is in use.
Giant battery bank? Charge until original smart charger shows it's true stripes and runs away. Shut it off. Click on above charger and let it do it's job. Everything is SCREWDRIVER AND POT adjustable including and ESPECIALLY time at absorbsion voltage limit. Use whatever timer fickles your tancy.
This would make a superb storage charger setup as well. Interval time periodic stirring to what your batteries decide they need.
Now go run and look. Is your 300 dollar A Einstein charger capable of supporting a 33 amp FLOAT load without reverting back to kindergarten hissy-fit absorbsion charging?
There is a lot of info in the paragraphs above. Damned near unlimited possibilities and unlimited adjustments to tweak ONCE and then forget it.
This allows your intelligence and your hydrometer to manage your batteries automatically. It isn't a pipe organ. Sitting on top of it and fiddling with levers and knobs is not the idea. There IS a correct setting for your unique set of batteries and your unique lifestyle.
And to finish last just so folks understand this - this is not a Saturday afternoon spent connected to a pedestal setup. It's a SERIOUS corrective device for folks who dry camp in the shade a lot, and rely on four dollar a gallon gasoline or diesel to maintain their batteries. It takes MORE MONEY to fill my generator tank once than what this system would cost.
There is nothing as unwise as believing there is plug and play battery maintenance. Set to the correct voltages and time at absorbsion this critter would be perfect for heavily cycled AGM accumulators as well.
In electric shop, in 8th grade, we had to bread board anything before we built it. But I think this is a simple enough concept even I can figure it out without a schematic.
There is a lot more to your thought process than what shows on the surface in your first post. When you explain it like this... it makes a lot more sense. Set properly, this would be one heavy duty cell equalizer, once set up, with the timer, you can do it and fix those problematic Group 31 open cell lead acid batteries once every 10 to 14 days and get them desulphated, right, the first time.
With this, solar panels, portable or otherwise, become optional. 2 hours extra on a Honda Eu1000i with this, once every 14 days... is a dollar of gas or less? The batteries will limit the amps flowed with resistive charging. They will only take so much when using this in equalize mode settings at 15.5V max voltage.
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