Doug Bade wrote: > The loaded voltage is about 12.5 to 12.8 comparable to what would be > in the trunk of a car starting at 13.8 at the battery alternator > connection.. including voltage drop... > That was the design anyhow... Astron's or eq are some what of a > problem as they really do not sag at all.. 13.8 all day all night all nice.... > The club is talking about building a battery band that will be somewhere around 400ah at 12vcd. they want to buy some "smart charger" that puts out 5a. I tried to explain at the club meeting last night that should be battery bank go completely down because of an extended power outage, that a 5a charger would take 80+ hours to bring the batteries back up, and it woul probably take longer than that if the repeater was on during the charge. I was thinking about a rs50BB or the like, but wasn't sure what the MastrII needed if 13.8 would be too much.. That's the basis of the original question.
> I chose a different route at work and built a battery stack with a > trace engineering charge controller float charging the batteries > active all the time using a astron or eq as the "charger" source.. > The trace engineering controller ( from the solar world) does the > charge maintenance etc like no aftermarket tool I have found for eq > money....I think it was a Model C40 or C65... maybe a C30 would do... > all are different current specs... > Back we go to Google for product specs. Thanks for the idea! 73 Mike
