WFCO WF8955 complete garbage?
Searching through the forums and found many people repeating the mantra "WFCO is junk - replace with anything better". But looking at ORV AND Keystone, who both use the WFCO WF8955, I find it odd tha...
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totaldla wrote:
I'm really getting confused by this discussion as I can't tell if the "problems " are due to the charge controller quality, or due to manufacturer stupidity, or due to forum talk that disproportionately focuses on a few failures.
Probably a bit of all of the above. I've had several trailers with WFCO converters and have never had a single failure, my only complaint being none has ever properly bulk charged at 14.4 volts. Nor do I ever recall any of them ever eventually float charging at 13.2 volts, as claimed by the manufacturer. My current 8955 seems to always sit around 13.7 volts regardless of battery SOC ... that said, I'm reluctant to complain too loudly as my Interstate G27 will be 9 yrs old this spring and it still holds a full charge. For those who dry camp regularly I would say having a WFCO would be problematic, especially if charging with a genset as that would lead to excessively long genset run times, but for those of us who normally camp on electric sites and may only occasionally draw the battery down to 50% SOC the WFCO seems to work "well enough". ;)
