Solar float mode: Necessary?
As a practical matter, is float mode necessary with solar charging? As an alternative, the controller would simply stop charging when the battery was full. The next day the process would repeat. ...
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Snowman9000 wrote:
As BFL is mentioning, is float mode stealing valuable electrons, preventing you from getting as fully charged as possible from solar?
I think what he said was that Float mode might not get you to Full on some days (after it had switched to Float at 90%), because it's getting dark soon. In other words, on some days it's better to extend the Bulk and/or Absorption longer because Float is too slow charging. Float mode can't "steal" anything, charging is charging.
