lawrosa wrote:
lol I have a hydrometer, and I carry it with me... But having 8 people camping with you I didnt have time to open the batt boxes and do a hydrometer test. Two grandkids 4 and 2 yrs keep you busy.
But I figures with full batts the first day I would wake up with better then 11.9v -11.8v the next morning.. That was the 3 12 volts @ 220 aH...
As I said second day I just tried the two batts as I though I nay have had a parisitic draw from the truck.. Well 10.5v the next day wasnt good, and that day we were leaving..
Im trying to find the current dimentions of whats in there now so I can chose what I can fit in there...
I dont want a stand alone and just want to replace the bottom end for simplicity..
I wonder if I brought my old 50 amps sears charger from 1985 and put on 50 amp start for 1 hour or so I would get better results...
Mike ... what a small world. That old Sears 10/2/50 charger in your photo is the exact model that I carry along in our RV to help charge our AGM RV batteries faster! The charger in your photo looks to be in immaculate condtion, unlike my old rusted and battle-worn 10/2/50.
When drycamping, I charge my AGM batteries using a little ultra-quiet Honda EX650 generator to power BOTH the RV's stock 13.8 volt converter hooked up in parallel with the Sears 10/2/50 set to it's 50 amp "Start" position. The two chargers together in parallel pump more current into the batteries per hour than just the converter alone does.
I can't believe those old Sears war-horse chargers are still around and still work ... they don't make em' like they used to.
