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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In the WFCO manual it says after being in normal 13.6 for 48hrs and no activity, it drops to storage/float 13.2 but then if you turn on the lights or whatever it goes back to 13.6
In the PD/Charge Wizard manual it says 13.6 is for when the PD senses by the system voltage the battery is between 50-90%. After 30 hrs at 13.6 with no activity it drops to storage 13.2. No mention of how it automatically goes back to 13.6, so maybe it never does. It does seem to say if system voltage indicates battery is below 50% it will go to bulk at 14.4, then start over.
It says if you use the CW to put it in storage then after four hours it returns to automatic mode. Another blurb says it returns to 13.6 whatever you manually chose. Not clear. But that is just using the CW not how the PD itself works in auto.
What people with their PDs may be seeing with it staying at 13.2 under load is that the system voltage is not yet below 12.2 or whatever to show it is under 50% again and needs a bulk restart of the charge stages?
In the PD/Charge Wizard manual it says 13.6 is for when the PD senses by the system voltage the battery is between 50-90%. After 30 hrs at 13.6 with no activity it drops to storage 13.2. No mention of how it automatically goes back to 13.6, so maybe it never does. It does seem to say if system voltage indicates battery is below 50% it will go to bulk at 14.4, then start over.
It says if you use the CW to put it in storage then after four hours it returns to automatic mode. Another blurb says it returns to 13.6 whatever you manually chose. Not clear. But that is just using the CW not how the PD itself works in auto.
What people with their PDs may be seeing with it staying at 13.2 under load is that the system voltage is not yet below 12.2 or whatever to show it is under 50% again and needs a bulk restart of the charge stages?
