Replacing my Converter/Charger - Help

BFL13 wrote:
What a deal! $150 and free shipping for an adjustable 75 that will also do auto three stage. :)

If you can, please try your voltmeter in the DC terminals, set it to single and twiddle the voltage pot through its range. Yours says 16.5, but some actually do 15.5 as the max. It would be significant if these do 16.5 for real so you can equalize with them too. If it only does 15.5 then they have a typo on it.

One thing might be where in the three stage mode it does the 14.6 for half an hour then drops to 13.6. On the old models, that was only for 15 minutes every time but would stay longer at 14.6 with a lower battery that needed longer to recharge. But that also had an effect on the adjustable setting, where you can set it as high as 16.5, but then it drops a volt after 15 minutes to 15.5. So if you set 14.8 at first, it would drop to 13.8 after 15 minutes then you had to crank it back to 14.8 and now it would stay there.

I am wondering if this one will drop a volt from the first setting but now after half an hour instead of 15 minutes. Easy to deal with if it does, but it would be better if it would just stay at the first setting and that first setting could be as high as 16.6 instead of just 15.5, which is too low for equalizing. I hope that it does stay at the first setting with a range to 16.5. Might not.

So, if you have half an hour to spare testing for that, please let us know what it does.

Sure thing, I'll check that out tonight and see what it does
It looks like the power converter shares the same circuit with the Fridge and Kitchen GFI outlet,
I wonder if I should run a new circuit from breaker that does the rear outlets. I don't think anything is ever plugged in there
Then I can just unplug the old Iota and plug it in when needed right?