kiwiRVer wrote:
I would suggest you would be better off using a proper intelligent charger rather than a straight power supply.
What are the factors at play with that?
AFAIK a power supply works the same as a "smart charger" as long as you treat it as a manual charger and shut it off when it is "done."
The OP will use his to do a 50-80 and then shut it off. What's wrong with that?
A different thing, but it is true that you can use your converter as a "power supply" instead of as a "battery charger."
In that case it will do better when acting as a power supply. EG, I can use my 7355 converter ( single voltage at 13.8v ) to back- stop my battery bank while at the same time the inverter has a load on it that draws 90 amps from the battery bank. The 55 amper will do 56 constant amps, so the "net" draw (it is not net, but it looks like that) is 34 amps.
But the same converter, acting as a battery charger will only do about 35 amps on the wiring it has, and tapers from there. The thing being that a battery is not a normal sort of "load" but one that gets higher in voltage the more you charge it, so the difference between its voltage and the charger's fixed voltage shrinks, tapering the amps. That does not happen when acting as a power supply on a constant load.
On the fuse location, the power supply is to power the battery, so who gets the fuse? :) One at each end of the same wire? Beats me.
