Replacing my Converter/Charger - Help

Steve92004 wrote:



I thought you wanted me to put it in automatic mode for the test
I redid the test in manual mode and it stayed 16.6 for an hour until I turned it off

My question is do these adjustable models sense voltage and react accordingly?
Like if I plug into shore power in three stage mode when the battery is full is the charger going to dump bulk voltage into it regardless?

Yes, but only for half an hour so no harm done. Then it drops to 13.6

OK starting over. :) So my question was what does it do on single adj and does it go to 16.5? Answer is yes it goes to 16.5 and it DOES NOT drop after half an hour. Great!!! Perfect- just what is wanted. so you can pick 14.8 and walk away and just be back when the batteries are done so you can switch down to 13.6. Or if you are doing a 50-90, just pull the plug on the charger and shut off the gen at your 90.

OK, so your question is what does it do in the three stage mode? Answer is it goes through its routine automatically, you don't have to do a thing. It starts at 14.6, stays there for half an hour and drops a volt to 13.6 and stays there for 12 hours before dropping to 13.2---except if you keep running things in your rig, AFAIK it stays at 13.6 and won't drop to 13.2 until 12hrs after you stop using things in the rig.

I will delete the stuff I posted before thinking it did drop in single adj after half an hour. Please edit/delete my wrong stuff that is quoted in your 7:23 post since I can't do that with your post.

We are getting there, sort of! :)

Here's another thing--the older PMs doing three stage always did the first 15 minutes at 14.6 and then if the battery voltage was up to 14.4ish by then, it dropped to 13.6 BUT--if the battery voltage was still under that by then, it stayed on at 14.6 until the batteries did get near 14.6 and then dropped to 13.6

Sooo--what does this one do when the half hour is up and the batteries are not yet up to 14.4ish? Does it keep going at 14.6 till they are,(as it should, IMO) which might take hours depending on the size of the bank and the amps of the charger, or does it drop to 13.6 anyway, so you need to pick ADJ mode to get the job done?

To test for that , you would need your 6s way down (35-40%) in SOC and start off in three stage and note what happens after the half hour--stays at 14.6 or not? (at 50% they would reach near 14.6 in half an hour anyway, so you would not be able to say what did it)