WFCO Converter Longevity
I've been reading that these things are pretty much junk, don't last long. How long can I expect to get out of it? What should I upgrade to? For the time being, I'm thinking hooking up a battery tende...
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MrWizard wrote:kellertx5er wrote:joeshmoe wrote:
Another thing I'm a little confused about is deep cycle amp. charging. I was under the impression that these deep cycle batteries are not supposed to never get more than 40-45 amps when being charged with the exception of desulfation mode. This WFCO converter supposedly spits out 55 amps. Isn't that going to eventually fry my batts?
Joe, the 55 (or whatever) amp rating of a converter refers to the DC output for powering your lights, refer, etc. It is not the charging current.
Wrong
There is one single output it will max at 55 amps
The battery is simply another load, like the lights and water pump
If you have multiple loads or batteries that can use the 55 amps it will be delivered to those loads
If you have only one battery and no other loads turned on, that battery might take that 55 for a few seconds, before tapering down, If you have several batteries with heavy discharge, they can and probably will take the full 55 amps
It's all about wire size and battery need (state of charge)
Correct except for the exact number of amps vs the rated max. Smk got more than his WFCO's rating and I got more the my converters' ratings as stated above.
The/a PowerMax guy told me their first batch of 100 ampers they got in from the sub-contractor that makes them would do 120a. The PowerMax folks thought that was a bit much, so they had to get "Engineering" to do more work on that so they would do closer to 100a. That got done. As it is, my 100 amper does 104a, which is "close enough" I would be very upset if it only did 99a of course! :) Seriously annoyed. So 104 is keeping me happy and PowerMax happy.
