If I am assuming correctly that Zivan and Elcom is the same distributor I had the same experience with my Elcom. It was charging my Deka Gel 12volt (8G31) to 242volts (15 batteries) where Deka stated the max was 214volts. I went around with them and the company (not to be mentioned) that I purchased the Elcom from to no avail. I finally purchased 4 Pro SeriesX4 to charge each battery individually. Surprise, surprise the total voltage when charging was max out at 214 volts, right to Deka specs. Recently I started to convert to Lith and sold my 4 year old batteries to the local Fishing Spot that rents out batteries by the day. He tested each battery and all read between 105ah to 125ah. Well above the 97ah specs...not bad for 4 year old batteries. I only had about 10k miles on them which works out to 333 cycles on them at full charge (it was more like double that with less than full charge). My point is I believe they survived above expectation because I insured that they were not overcharged and did not used the Elcom. BTW I never got my Elcom charger back or my money. But then most of you have already hear that story.
Buddy Mills -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of EVDL Administrator Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 5:21 PM To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List Subject: Re: [EVDL] Charge profile on Zivan NG3 for 108V US Battery 125's On 22 Oct 2013 at 12:27, RightHand Engineering wrote: > the US distributor for Zivan seems to consistently program the Zivan > chargers to be too aggressive when charging wet PbA batteries .. I ... > asked to have it reprogrammed (for free), but they refused and defended > their charging profile as "good" for the batteries. An acquaintance of mine had exactly the same experience with a K5 several years ago. It was hammering his batteries, but the distributor flat-out refused to change the profile at all. David Roden EVDL Administrator http://www.evdl.org/ _______________________________________________ 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) _______________________________________________ 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)
