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MEXICOWANDERER
Sep 13, 2015Explorer
I had my Wifco @ 13.62 volts at the conveter CIRCUIT BOARD for WEEKS AT A TIME delivering less than 1.0 amp and it will/not cannot drop into 13.2 volts float mode. The converter design is flawed from the word go and even if you do as I did and drop 100 amp hours battery to 12.1 volts connect a 2 farad capacitor to force the unit to 14.4 volts, what are you going to do about the unobtainable 13.2 volt float that never appears? I shot the system with 15.6 volts from a power supply for a few seconds but the WhifCo happily chewed gum and stumbled along at 13.6 volts. Never twitched.
This is a Power Pedestal Princess converter perfect for 100% RV park use whete it doesn't matter if the battery is destroyed or not. I like it as a fixed 13.6 volt power supply. But modifying the thing to be a real charger starts off by placing it behind a rear dual and go bach and forth a half dozen times. It just is not worth it. But again I love it as a bench power supply. Naked as a jaybird with a second fan blasting at it, it knows it can't play "dressup" and pretend it's a real battery charger. I can see a ratio of thirty to one the nber of PPP'S versus boondocking RVs sold today. 90% of RVs glued to an RV park have corpses in plastic cases that used to be real batteries.
Such is life.
This is a Power Pedestal Princess converter perfect for 100% RV park use whete it doesn't matter if the battery is destroyed or not. I like it as a fixed 13.6 volt power supply. But modifying the thing to be a real charger starts off by placing it behind a rear dual and go bach and forth a half dozen times. It just is not worth it. But again I love it as a bench power supply. Naked as a jaybird with a second fan blasting at it, it knows it can't play "dressup" and pretend it's a real battery charger. I can see a ratio of thirty to one the nber of PPP'S versus boondocking RVs sold today. 90% of RVs glued to an RV park have corpses in plastic cases that used to be real batteries.
Such is life.
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