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Author:  rmarini [ Fri May 07, 2010 12:11 pm ]
Post subject:  Battery Charger

I have the FW factory installed Perko 1-2-ALL-OFF switch with 2 batteries. I just bought a new electronic batterycharger and need to know if I can just hook it up to one of the batteries and put the Perko switch on ALL to charge both at the same time?


2009 H200 w/all the options...
Langley, BC.
Canada

Author:  Jim_R [ Mon May 10, 2010 11:32 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Battery Charger

If you did as you described current would pass to both batteries. Probably be fine with trickle charger, but any larger amperage 'smart charger' battery charger could those features defeated - it's see both batteries as one large battery. So if you have one fully topped off battery and another that is depleted, the fully topped off battery could get over-charged. Better to connect the single bank charger directly to the depleted battery and make sure it's isolated from the topped off battery. Even better would be to go with a dual bank charger (of sufficient amperage) that could monitor and manage the batteries individually - even then you would not want the battery switch set to all.

Author:  EvilZ [ Mon May 10, 2010 2:35 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Battery Charger

Jim_R wrote:
If you did as you described current would pass to both batteries. Probably be fine with trickle charger, but any larger amperage 'smart charger' battery charger could those features defeated - it's see both batteries as one large battery. So if you have one fully topped off battery and another that is depleted, the fully topped off battery could get over-charged. Better to connect the single bank charger directly to the depleted battery and make sure it's isolated from the topped off battery. Even better would be to go with a dual bank charger (of sufficient amperage) that could monitor and manage the batteries individually - even then you would not want the battery switch set to all.


+1...

What kind of battery charger did you buy?

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