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Post by Tuesday Wildchild on Jun 9, 2017 10:58:47 GMT
No sir I just don't like you. Mrs TW may have said she was . looks like i will be the only English there ,who the hell am I going to talk to... Beauty storm last night... You could always talk to Jaks. Yes I do love a good thunder and lightening display, was expecting more from the reports but I think it spread out a bit by the time it reached us.
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Post by Baz on Jun 9, 2017 12:17:37 GMT
looks like i will be the only English there ,who the hell am I going to talk to... Beauty storm last night... You could always talk to Jaks. Yes I do love a good thunder and lightening display, was expecting more from the reports but I think it spread out a bit by the time it reached us. We had thunder balls n light n in very very frit nin too ,you is not special ner
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Post by chad on Jun 9, 2017 12:41:35 GMT
Are you channeling Freddie Mercury?
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Post by Baz on Jun 9, 2017 12:47:05 GMT
Are you channeling Freddie Mercury? Gali lay oh
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Post by Zed on Jun 9, 2017 14:47:56 GMT
I remember when I got my 10A charger for the camper it was considered to be a bit over spec if anything.
I have an 80A one on the boat which is considered to be adequate but no great shakes.
WTF is going on?
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Post by chad on Jun 9, 2017 14:59:14 GMT
So what's the total AH for your boat's batteries? - it must be pretty big and if they're lead acid weigh a ton.
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Post by Zed on Jun 9, 2017 15:04:35 GMT
So what's the total AH for your boat's batteries? - it must be pretty big and if they're lead acid weigh a ton. 2x 200Ah gel, 70kg each. Both 10+ years old, ones kaput and bypassed.
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Post by chad on Jun 9, 2017 15:15:20 GMT
My bus batteries total about 160AH so with my 10A charger it should take a max of 16 hours to charge both, looking at things simplistically.
I'm happy with that.
With a 80A yours would be 5 hours for both - I'd say that was more than adequate unless there's something I'm missing
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Post by Zed on Jun 9, 2017 17:32:07 GMT
My bus batteries total about 160AH so with my 10A charger it should take a max of 16 hours to charge both, looking at things simplistically. I'm happy with that. With a 80A yours would be 5 hours for both - I'd say that was more than adequate unless there's something I'm missing Ah, sadly it doesn't work like that. With a discharged battery it will take a huge amount of amps initially. As the voltage in the battery rises, the amps the battery will accept gradually drops until the voltage reaches whatever you set on your charger. That is the bulk stage. Next the voltage is held at whatever you set until the battery is accepting approx 2-4% of it's Ah capacity in amps. That's the absorption stage. At that point it's considered charged because getting that down to say 1% would take as long again and it's not considered economically worthwhile. Then your charger should go into float at a lower voltage to maintain without over charging. At home of course, plugged in the mains between camps it doesn't really matter what you charge it with, it'll get there eventually. At the moment my solar is keeping up on it's own, but without experimenting with the charge settings it was giving up when the battery was only 85% charged. I had to up the absorption voltage a bit at a time beyond the recommended gel voltages. Farkin confusing TBH.
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Post by chad on Jun 10, 2017 6:14:37 GMT
Thanks for that - I wondered what the different stages on my CTEC were but couldn't be arsed to find out.
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Post by Tuesday Wildchild on Jul 4, 2017 21:28:29 GMT
Had my 200w panels connected today, tonight sleeping in van before going to Cognac blues festival tomorrow. Thank you PO for the inverter, the house fan is making it nearly comfortable to sleep.
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Post by Baz on Jul 4, 2017 22:05:51 GMT
Had my 200w panels connected today, tonight sleeping in van before going to Cognac blues festival tomorrow. Thank you PO for the inverter, the house fan is making it nearly comfortable to sleep. You iz gona be swinging it tamora then boyo
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