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azrving
Aug 22, 2014Explorer
So....I went back and read your first post and then the second post is Mr Mex's hydrometer pic. So, if you start over and get back to sq one and get the SG right in both batteries. Then do your normal use. Forget the amps, just go by the voltmeter and say it gets to 60 percent SOC 12.20. Turn your PM on and let it do it's thing until you hit float. Your SG should be up. If it's not, then the voltage was never high enough? Right?
That's where I was in this whole thing when I started. It would take 2 1/2 days or more to fully charge and raise the SG. I was hitting the boost button too. That's when the dread set in and I bought the quick charge and did a full charge on both batteries in about 8 hours. AND as one of these guys told me "remember that those are new batts and will take several cycles before they perform" and he was absolutely right. After a dozen or more cycles they hold up better and SG comes up faster.
Start over, look at that smallest wire in your battery set up. I dont want to go on about it but if it's 6 g it may matter. Then use it as is and watch your SG after each charge. I just posted about my gr 27 trolling motor battery and it was at what anyone would think was 95 % soc yet the sg was only 1.248.
dont top charge, just use the converter. If it wont do what you want then you need a real battery charger.
Maybe the top charger you were using was on too long or something and boiled out water. There are only so many pieces to this and the hydrometer picture was number one.
That's where I was in this whole thing when I started. It would take 2 1/2 days or more to fully charge and raise the SG. I was hitting the boost button too. That's when the dread set in and I bought the quick charge and did a full charge on both batteries in about 8 hours. AND as one of these guys told me "remember that those are new batts and will take several cycles before they perform" and he was absolutely right. After a dozen or more cycles they hold up better and SG comes up faster.
Start over, look at that smallest wire in your battery set up. I dont want to go on about it but if it's 6 g it may matter. Then use it as is and watch your SG after each charge. I just posted about my gr 27 trolling motor battery and it was at what anyone would think was 95 % soc yet the sg was only 1.248.
dont top charge, just use the converter. If it wont do what you want then you need a real battery charger.
Maybe the top charger you were using was on too long or something and boiled out water. There are only so many pieces to this and the hydrometer picture was number one.
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