New battery time

[rjmackillop]

Great battery site:
http://www.eastpenn-deka.com/assets/base/0139.pdf

Flooded/gel/AGM


--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, GARY MINKER wrote:
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> 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.
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> --- On Thu, 8/20/09, Joyce and Richard Hayden wrote:
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> From: Joyce and Richard Hayden
> Subject: Re: [WanderlodgeForum] Re: New battery time
> To: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thursday, August 20, 2009, 3:03 PM
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> 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.
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> Dick Hayden - '87 PT 38 - Lake Stevens, WA
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: GARY
> MINKER
> To: WanderlodgeForum@ yahoogroups. com
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> Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 3:09
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> Subject: Re: [WanderlodgeForum] Re: New
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> 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.
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> Thu, 8/13/09, sfedeli3 <sfedeli3@comcast. net>
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> From:
> sfedeli3 <sfedeli3@comcast. net>
> Subject:
> [WanderlodgeForum] Re: New battery time
> To:
> WanderlodgeForum@ yahoogroups. com
> Date: Thursday, August
> 13, 2009, 9:40 AM
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> Hi Jerry,
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> 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].
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> Shane Fedeli
> 85PT40
> Hershey,
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> yahoogroups. com, "jburgessx2"
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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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