Redarc DC-DC Battery Charger
I’m in the process of installing a Redarc BCDC1225D battery charger in my truck camper. I got it installed enough yesterday to give it an initial test, and was pleased to see that with the truck idlin...
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Compatible with Smart Alternators
A number of newer vehicles on the market have ECU-controlled, variable-voltage alternators designed to reduce emissions and boost performance
The single application I am aware of when alternator power needs to be curtailed is the small sailboat (cruising) world, where a tiny 2 cyl diesel may be spinning a 150 amp alternator. Hit with a storm or tide, that vessel may need the last 5% of power for the wheel. Alternator field cutout is prudent.
If you buy the performance or economy thing, for an automobile, you've screwed the pooch. Either the chassis burden is ridiculous or you've selected a Monkey Riding A Football model with a too tiny engine and too many frivolous accessories. Cycling an engine battery is g-o-o-o-o-d?
A 2-cylinder car either loses the charging system or a Peterbilt will be wearing cutesy bumper bling? Ya see the utter stupidity in this?
Or maybe electric cars will be spinning belt driven alternators because some bright-eyed nerd prestidigitated fancy algebra in front of a failed lawyer and it became law?
This is huckersterism on an embarrassing scale.
Any time a device is made more complicated it will break or wear-out more often.
What is the relationship now? A 2018 travel trailer will endure 768 times more component failures than a 1970 travel trailer?
Computer menu driven charging systems will ruin 2.17 times more batteries?
A number of newer vehicles on the market have ECU-controlled, variable-voltage alternators designed to reduce emissions and boost performance
The single application I am aware of when alternator power needs to be curtailed is the small sailboat (cruising) world, where a tiny 2 cyl diesel may be spinning a 150 amp alternator. Hit with a storm or tide, that vessel may need the last 5% of power for the wheel. Alternator field cutout is prudent.
If you buy the performance or economy thing, for an automobile, you've screwed the pooch. Either the chassis burden is ridiculous or you've selected a Monkey Riding A Football model with a too tiny engine and too many frivolous accessories. Cycling an engine battery is g-o-o-o-o-d?
A 2-cylinder car either loses the charging system or a Peterbilt will be wearing cutesy bumper bling? Ya see the utter stupidity in this?
Or maybe electric cars will be spinning belt driven alternators because some bright-eyed nerd prestidigitated fancy algebra in front of a failed lawyer and it became law?
This is huckersterism on an embarrassing scale.
Any time a device is made more complicated it will break or wear-out more often.
What is the relationship now? A 2018 travel trailer will endure 768 times more component failures than a 1970 travel trailer?
Computer menu driven charging systems will ruin 2.17 times more batteries?
- Design a charging system that keeps the chassis battery in float mode as long as possible. 99.9% would be a start
- True temperature compensation as measured at the battery
- No cycling e-v-e-r. The alternator must keep the battery at float during the heaviest achievable chassis electrical accessory loading
- The battery must see 0 milliamps parasitic draw.
