Battery-generator-charging upgrades?
This year will be our longest boondocking trip to date 7-10 days and want to upgrade our camper for this trip. I'd appreciate some suggestions and feedback to make sure we spend our limited budget wis...
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DiskDoctr wrote:westend wrote:
I'd suggest one of two upgrades:
1)Buy a stand-alone charger and use it in conjunction with what you have. You won't need to turn off your current onboard converter.
How can you have TWO 12v chargers working at the same time? Thought that was verboten?
As in not allowed in Deutschland? Nicht. :B It's quite OK. Electrically, you have two supplies of direct current into one (or multiple) storage devices. Practically speaking, if you get lucky, the two charging devices will both add current together and one won't drop immediately to float (although that will still be some additive current into the battery/s). I would guess, with a WFCO, it would never come out of float, or only briefly. That is from the history of their products reported on this Forum and others. I don't own one.
I do own a PD deckmount converter and it is still perfectly functional and 45 years old. Tell me about the electrical devices you own that are 45 yrs. old. Yeah, me too.
I'd suggest you buy this PD upgrade unit but I'm spending your money, lol. The nice thing about that unit is it comes with a remote so you can operate it into absorption mode when on the generator.
