Will she Float??? (3 stage Chargers)
have a hypothetical. conversation was brought up on another forum. here's the scenario. you have a 3 stage charger, you are plugged into ac. you have 1 battery, and the charger and the load...
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LittleBill wrote:BFL13 wrote:
IMO the battery will be in Float but the charger will not. It will keep supplying that 10 amps for the load. If a converter it will stay at 13.6v and not drop to 13.2v.
It depends on the temperature whether that 13.6v is too high for a Float voltage. 13.6 is right for about 50F, too high for 60F, too low for 40F. 13.2v is for 80F
temperature changes, how do we get around that issue?
Keep camping and never be in Float! :) Or if not camping, use a temperature compensated Float Charger instead of the converter.
The only (AFAIK) temp compensated converter (Parallax Paramode) available has some disadvantages that may apply, so can't recommend that instead. Better to have the exact converter you want and a separate float charger IMO.
