BEAUTIFUL. But sadly 17 Oct is almost two weeks after I must return. DANGIT! Thank you. it'll be ordered and sit at a UPS store for months perhaps longer than a year before I can get my hands on it. One thousand eight hundred miles each way to pick up mail. 400% duty if I have it shipped to Lazaro Cardenas, Michoacan.
My main responsibility is to not damage or degrade a three hundred fifty dollar battery. It's use is medical and I have one shot to get things right. I will not be able to tell as I go along. AGM is definitely seat-of-the-pants management. I do not trust WFCO or anyone else's device to get it right. All I can do is establish initial trends-and-tendencies with regard to voltage and amperage and from that point on beware of deviant behavior. The battery is not just going to sit there and grin at me feeding on 13.2 volts float. The power goes off for so long and so frequently (sometimes in the middle of the night) I am damned near thinking about getting a digital hour meter and verified elapsed time nightly against time spent asleep. I have no other way of knowing the battery has been cycled. Three hours elapsed time versus perhaps 10 hours clock time is a great clue.
I can live with four hours at 14.4 manually dictated. What I cannot live with is a deviance from the 13.2 volt float value. The machine in that regard has to be utterly reliable. Yes there can be a Battery Tender substituted, and from there the maintenance device morphs into a nightmare. There is going to be a 12 volt circuit for LED lighting so I do not do a two-and-a-half-gainer on the way to the bathroom at 0300. I decided there is no way I am going to try and feed the WFCO with trace MSW power. The generator shed is 150' away (diesel exhaust avoidance), and the AGM will only be fed diesel fuel when there is no other way.
Living on a Devil's Island budget keeps me hopping. Within the last thirty days the clouds parted a hand descended and pointed a golden finger at me. A floodtide of electronic parts is waiting at my PO box. Heaven sent. No more sitting around and chewing my lower lip. Most of the toys I used to have on a bench are going to be present and accounted for.
BTW might as well fess up. Today's my birthday...
