upgrading power converter
My power converter has apparently bit the dust, lights flickering for past couple of years now no charge to batteries... Anyhoo, we do a lot of dry camping, where we need to daily boost the batteries...
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ah64id wrote:
Here is the graph. I left out the reading at 10 hours, but by 10 hours the charge rate was under 1.5 which is what lifeline considered fully charged. I'll do a brief write-up and post a link.
According to specs on that battery, that is an AGM type of battery. Supposedly a lot less internal resistance when charging AGM's versus LA open vented. MexicoWanderer would know.
You have a lot of amp hour battery capacity to the amps your charge controller is capable of, an indication that the charge controller will hold for a longer period in bulk charge mode. That and less internal resistance from the battery, being of AGM construction.
Still, impressive how it holds in bulk charge mode for 2 hours or so.
Too much resistance from skinny wiring seems to kick the PD series of charge controllers out of bulk mode earlier than necessary.
