How Best To Charge My Battery
I have a single group 27 battery. I have a Honda eu1000i generator. My trailer came with a parallax 7155 converter. I want to upgrade to a Progressive Dynamics PD9260CV converter. Will making t...
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Unyalli wrote:RJsfishin wrote:Agreeing with you. On this subject would it be better to disconnect the built in converter/charger and install a quality battery charger close to the battery?
Yes, a converter is nothing more than a glorified battery charger, and hook up is exactly the same.
In my Rockwood the WFCO 8955 power center is located around 15 to 20 foot of 10 gauge wire from my batteries. Disconnecting the built in converter would not remove power from the distribution panel would it? If not I would rather get a good adjustable 3 or 4 stage battery charger and mount it close to the batteries with 6 or 4 gauge wire. What say you?
Jeff
For about the same money, why would you choose a battery charger over a 4 stage converter that is designed to do this job ? A converter is designed,....filtered, etc, for staying inline all the time, a batt charger is not.
