First Time Boondocking Plan - Tech Question
I am trying to learn & prepare to Boondock for 12 days in Oct. I have a standard 5er setup (two 6 volt batteries) and a 2000w Honda generator. For convenience I purchased a battery level indicator at ...
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wa8yxm wrote:
Assuming a good 3-stage charger (not a magnetek 63xx or Parallex 73xx or equal) it takes around six hours to fully charge. Some folks like to brag about how fast some makes of AGM batteries charge.. yup, 5:45 instead of 6:00. 5 times the price and it saves you a few minutes is all.
I am also not in the AGM camp. Nor is MEX. They have their merits, though.
I'm not quite sure what wa8, here is saying, but you should be able to go from 50-90 or 40-80 in 2-3 hours with that 9180 and Wizard. The last 10% takes exponentially more time. Not sure if you've studied up on that yet, but most of us don't fully recharge while boondocking. Mainly the full-timers.
But when you get back home, you definitely want to plug in and boost 'em right away before the sulfate gets any harder.
That said... for a 15 day, it wouldn't hurt to try and top them off mid-stay. This could take the 6 hours that wa8 is talking about here.
And THAT said... we do the best we can, but the batteries are there to serve at OUR pleasure. Not the other way around. Your 6s will survive the trip without a full topping... so long as you top 'em right when you get home, as mentioned.
