I have been very happy with my ProMariner, although I think you'll be
happy with any of these new solid state chargers. You'll also get some
waterline back. <G> Separating the charger and inverter is a great
idea. I'm glad I wired the boat for that, even though I had a Heart
Freedom at the time.
The Sterling charger is the exact same thing under a different brand and
might be cheaper.
<http://sterling-power-usa.com/marinebatterychargerhome.aspx>
If the integral echo charger in your Freedom still works, pull the case
off and remove the echo charger. It's on a little heat sink of its own,
and comes out with four screws. It's worth money or gift karma points,
even if you don't need it yourself.
I kept my Link 2000-R monitor, and the shunts and everything.
I'd also recommend the remote control panel for the nav station. I
didn't get it, because it's not available in Mexico, and because my
charger's mounted under the nav station and it's no big deal to look
down and see the front panel. There might be more configuration options
available with the remote panel -- don't know. The only thing I don't
like -- and it's really minor -- is that it gets fooled easily by house
loads and thus doesn't drop into float mode when I think it should.
That's just the way I use it, though, since I'll fire up the Honda 2000
when on the hook, and when I do that I'll run the watermaker and defrost
the freezer which makes the compressor run max RPM, and so on. That
makes the charger think that the batteries are still accepting 15 amps
when actually they're full. No big deal.
Wal
Stephen wrote:
Anyone have suggestions about which brand of battery charger I should look at?
I am replacing a 23 yr old Freedom/Heart 50 amp charger/inverter.
Will probably go to a 40 or 50 amp charger only and get a separate 1000 watt
inverter.
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