What is Eating Those Batteries?
I went to Quartzite yesterday to visit an old friend who is dry-camping on BLM land and has been having some electrical problems with his travel trailer, a 2001 KZ model. The problem is that even wit...
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He seems to be using a pulse type desulfation method, which does not raise the battery voltage. He needs to charge the batteries to about 15v or so and do a desulfation that way.
Solar direct will get the voltage high enough if there is enough time in daylight. It won't go to 18v. It just climbs from what it is now to whatever he lets it get to (got to keep track) He should get it into the 15v range and let it bubble for a while, taking SG spot checks. When SG stops rising, or the battery gets too hot, he should stop.
If he can't get there by sundown then just leave it and restart next day to go the rest of the way, ASSuming the battery is disconnected overnight so it won't fall back overnight.
Solar direct will get the voltage high enough if there is enough time in daylight. It won't go to 18v. It just climbs from what it is now to whatever he lets it get to (got to keep track) He should get it into the 15v range and let it bubble for a while, taking SG spot checks. When SG stops rising, or the battery gets too hot, he should stop.
If he can't get there by sundown then just leave it and restart next day to go the rest of the way, ASSuming the battery is disconnected overnight so it won't fall back overnight.
