jrnymn7 wrote:
rjxj wrote:
Let it charge. Keep an eye on it but it will drop to 13.2 My Progressive Dynamics will take a day or more and will eventually drop. Converters and real battery chargers are not created equal. As mex says, you do want to know what it takes to reach full SG and recognize your converters ability and you wont have to check it all the time.
so i'm not the only one with this issue... good to know. i think maybe it's all part of having a fairly large battery bank?
i very rarely have access to shore power, and obviously running the gennie for 24+ hours isn't an option, so i'll have to arrange something where i can hook up for at least a couple days just to determine whether or not the charger will drop into float.
in the meantime, however, i cannot charge my bank 24/7, so i still need to know what constitutes a reasonably "full" charge... so that i don't continually under charge. i guess i'll have to do several SG readings after bringing the batteries to various charge current readings, i.e; down to 8a, 7a, 6a, etc.
No you're not. With extra batteries a regular converter will take forever. At least that's my experience. Others seem to have different experiences. As a test, when your batteries are low, try charging just one battery or one bank of 2 6 volters (whatever you have). Should be about twice as quick cuz of half the work. My progressive Dynamics 4655 does do better if I babysit and push the boost button that kicks it to 14.40 v.
I have separated my series parallel 6 volt sammys club batteries into 2 banks with a blue seas selector switch. I also installed another selector for my Quick Charge brand battery charger. The house converter can charge bank one and the Quick Charge can do bank 2. When bank 2 is done the Quick Charge slaps the converter out of the way and switches over to finishing off bank one.
When both converter and charger are on it starts at about 24 amps ac on my Honda EU3000si depending on depth of discharge. 24 a x 120v= 2880 watts so the Honda is about right. I again thank ninerbikes for that help.
