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New battery time
08-27-2009, 01:05
Post: #16
New battery time
Driving is the equalizing charge. If you drive once a month, you equalize the batteries. Every battery is slightly different by a few tenths of a volt. If you call 5 years short life, then you would be right but I am ballanced out and get 5 or more years out of the batteries with this trick. And actually at the battery terminals it is 13.9 volts.

--- On Thu, 8/20/09, Joyce and Richard Hayden wrote:
From: Joyce and Richard Hayden
Subject: Re: [WanderlodgeForum] Re: New battery time
To: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, August 20, 2009, 3:03 PM





Gary,
The problem with 13.7 volt chargers is that your batteries will not ever get a full charge. That will cause them to fail prematurely. Shane is correct.
Dick Hayden - '87 PT 38 - Lake Stevens, WA
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Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 3:09 PM
Subject: Re: [WanderlodgeForum] Re: New battery time



After years of debate, I got rid of all chargers and went to fixed highly regulated switching converters at 13.7 VDC. I let the engine float/equalize the batteries. The Sonnenschein AGM's love it and I have no problems. I have 120 amps of converters that never boil a battery and at 13.7 the charge is good.

--- On Thu, 8/13/09, sfedeli3 <sfedeli3@comcast. net> wrote:

From: sfedeli3 <sfedeli3@comcast. net>
Subject: [WanderlodgeForum] Re: New battery time
To: WanderlodgeForum@ yahoogroups. com
Date: Thursday, August 13, 2009, 9:40 AM




Hi Jerry,

Don't waste your $$ on the IOTA's. They are not capable of a full bulk charge or equalization (despite what the literature says). You need a charger that is temperature- compensating and capable of at least 15.5 volts when equalizing. I'd spend the extra $$ and get a Truecharge2 or even a remanned ProSine 2.0. Wherever you mount it, make sure that it's dry and cool. Mine's been working great for 4 years. Check out this link- [http://www.xantrex. com/web/id/ 256/p/1/pt/ 7/product. asp].

Shane Fedeli
85PT40
Hershey, PA

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> We full time but rarely dry camp. So, I'm thinking 12v deep cycle should be okay. Also, I'm replacing the boilers with Iota DLS-45 chargers. Thoughts? Jerry 85 PT40
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> should be fine. Also, I'm replacing my boilers with Iota DLS-45 chargers.
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Messages In This Thread
New battery time - jburgessx2 - 08-12-2009, 04:30
New battery time - sfedeli3 - 08-13-2009, 01:40
New battery time - jburgessx2@... - 08-13-2009, 02:01
New battery time - Eric Perplies - 08-13-2009, 05:50
New battery time - jburgessx2@... - 08-13-2009, 05:54
New battery time - GARY MINKER - 08-19-2009, 10:06
New battery time - GARY MINKER - 08-19-2009, 10:09
New battery time - GARY MINKER - 08-19-2009, 10:12
New battery time - jburgessx2@... - 08-19-2009, 10:14
New battery time - jburgessx2@... - 08-19-2009, 10:26
New battery time - GARY MINKER - 08-19-2009, 10:29
New battery time - Joyce and Richard Hayden - 08-20-2009, 07:03
New battery time - Wilhelmus Schreurs - 08-20-2009, 16:50
New battery time - sfedeli3 - 08-21-2009, 01:10
New battery time - rjmackillop - 08-21-2009, 01:48
New battery time - GARY MINKER - 08-27-2009 01:05
New battery time - rjmackillop - 08-27-2009, 02:07



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