New battery time

[GARY MINKER]

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 ----- Original Message ----- From: GARY MINKER To: WanderlodgeForum@ yahoogroups. com 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 --- In WanderlodgeForum@ yahoogroups. com, "jburgessx2" wrote: > > 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 > > > should be fine. Also, I'm replacing my boilers with Iota DLS-45 chargers. > > A >