Xantrex Truecharge2 Reliability?
Hello all, New member here with a 2015 Rockwood 2306 that we picked up June of 2018. We're upgrading from the terrible group 24 battery to a set of two Trojan T-105 batteries. I'm looking for a sui...
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Looking at the OP's problem for charging the batts after getting home before heading to the no-power storage yard.
Rv is out on the street so how to get house power to it? Long extension cord across sidewalk all night? How far up the street to find an empty parking spot? Gen? It will take all night, so can't run the gen that long.
It will take about 50 minutes to get from 50% SOC at constant 60 amps to absorption at about 70% SOC, and then about another hour and a half to get to 90%, call it all about two and a half hours. But now you have to get to 100 from 90, which takes hours and hours. You can't get close to 100 and put them away with no Float in hopes the Float time will get them finished. They have to be at full baseline SG before you turn off the charger. Probably run out of time before the RV has to be moved.
So best way is take the batts off the rig at home and do it all there however long it takes. (wheel barrow or little red wagon job) Meanwhile you need a 12v battery in the trailer (emergency breakaway law)to get to the storage yard and run whatever there to set up.
So now you bring that 12v batt home which will be not heavy to get off the trailer into the tow vehicle for the ride home. Put the 12v batt on a Float at home too.
So that's all solved! :)
Rv is out on the street so how to get house power to it? Long extension cord across sidewalk all night? How far up the street to find an empty parking spot? Gen? It will take all night, so can't run the gen that long.
It will take about 50 minutes to get from 50% SOC at constant 60 amps to absorption at about 70% SOC, and then about another hour and a half to get to 90%, call it all about two and a half hours. But now you have to get to 100 from 90, which takes hours and hours. You can't get close to 100 and put them away with no Float in hopes the Float time will get them finished. They have to be at full baseline SG before you turn off the charger. Probably run out of time before the RV has to be moved.
So best way is take the batts off the rig at home and do it all there however long it takes. (wheel barrow or little red wagon job) Meanwhile you need a 12v battery in the trailer (emergency breakaway law)to get to the storage yard and run whatever there to set up.
So now you bring that 12v batt home which will be not heavy to get off the trailer into the tow vehicle for the ride home. Put the 12v batt on a Float at home too.
So that's all solved! :)
