BFL13 wrote:
The thing is that Phil's routine is not to just use 13.8 all the time.
You may be right.
However, I've stated many times that my recharging method may work because of our camping style ... which is not to squat for days on end, but to be on the road between camping spots often. So far our Ford alternator system has been up to the task of nicely breaking up the approximate 50-90 cycles our converter is most likely doing to the batteries while we're camped.
Lately I've been enhancing the converter's battery charging rate by paralleling it with an ancient Sears 10/2/50 charger set to it's 50 amp position. The output impedances of these two sources in parallel along with the input impedance of the parallel AGM batteries seem to all play well enough together such that I get at least a 50% increase in charging current flow into the AGM batteries.
By the way, I first got the idea to parallel RV charging sources years ago from posts in these forums by either ............. pianotuna ............. or BFL13. Many thanks to whichever of these pioneers suggested it!!
