Chuck Thanks for that. I too am actually considering going to one of these with my lead pack at some point. I worry about how long my current charger will last (I bought it used and have been running it daily for almost 3 years). I'm probably pushing it too hard which will likely shorten its life - it's rated for up to 150 AH batts and mine are 170 AH.
The "gases a lot" comment may be sort of relative. With my current charger when it's in the last phase (the final 20%) I can definitely smell the gassing (I run a fan in my garage to vent air out the window just in case). But my understanding is that with floodies this is what you want to get a proper charge and prevent sulfation. It would be good to know if that person has experienced the amount of gassing produced by other chargers? In other words is "a normal amount of gassing" which this person just thinks is excessive, or is it "more than you'd see with other chargers"? If it's the latter perhaps the charge endpoint on the algorithm is set too high. The comment about it running hot at 120V is especially interesting (not sure what your "hmmm" comment means btw). I currently use a Quick Charge Select-A-Charge which weighs in at 42 lbs and does get quite hot. I actually added a small external AC fan next to it that comes on during charging - not sure if it's really necessary, but I didn't want to take any chances. The "hot" comment suggests that while I might gain some weight I probably should keep the fan. While I think of it, will these chargers allow you to do a regular "equalization" charge (i.e., run two charge cycles back to back)? Or will the charger just notice full charge the second time and shut off right away? My current charger can be set so it will quickly charge up to 80% and then just repeats the last phase for 3 hours. I do that monthly. - Peter Flipsen Jr On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Chuck Hursch <[email protected]> wrote: > I just wanted to throw out the feedback I got. Basically people seemed to > feel that it was a plug it in and forget it type of charger - it does the > job. One person said the finishing charge seemed to gas the hell out of > his batteries; he just kills the charger early if he's available to do so. > And perhaps most interestingly, someone said that the charger seemed to > run rather hot at 120V with a slow-running fan, cooler at 240V with the fan > running faster - hmmm... > > Chuck > > On 1/28/2013 2:40 PM, Chuck Hursch wrote: > >> Hi Peter, >> >> Thanks for the pointer. I sent some queries. >> >> Chuck >> >> On 1/26/2013 10:01 PM, SLPinfo.org wrote: >> >>> Chuck, >>> >>> Have you searched the evalbum yet? A quick search under the category >>> "battery brand" yielded 160 hits for Elcon. By looking at the first >>> couple >>> of pages I found the following folks who are running Elcons with lead >>> acid >>> batts. There are very likely to be more. Hopefully you can find a few >>> with >>> significant experience. >>> >>> http://www.evalbum.com/4339 >>> >>> http://www.evalbum.com/4290 >>> >>> http://www.evalbum.com/4176 >>> >>> http://www.evalbum.com/4168 >>> >>> http://www.evalbum.com/4046 >>> >>> http://www.evalbum.com/4030 >>> >>> http://www.evalbum.com/3984 >>> >>> - Peter Flipsen Jr >>> >> [snip] >> ______________________________**_________________ >> UNSUBSCRIBE: >> http://www.evdl.org/help/**index.html#usub<http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub> >> http://lists.evdl.org/**listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org<http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org> >> For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA >> (http://groups.yahoo.com/**group/NEDRA<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA> >> ) >> >> >> > ______________________________**_________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: > http://www.evdl.org/help/**index.html#usub<http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub> > http://lists.evdl.org/**listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org<http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org> > For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/* > *group/NEDRA <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA>) > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20130201/e47b9e44/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
