Hi Wayne, In rummaging around the Web, I keep seeing recommendations for this brand of battery charger. Are you familiar with these? Are they worth the money?
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=bl_sr_automotive?ie=UTF8&field-brandtextbin=CTEK&node=15684181 Wes On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 4:06 PM, '[email protected]' via VFB Mail < [email protected]> wrote: > > Interesting, at first glance I thought the link said a 5amp hour charger > to trickle charge. Yep, 750 milliamp will take a long time! I think Neville > is on a better track but this will work. The best battery chargers use PWM > (pulse width modulation) which can significantly extended the life of your > battery and typically provides the fullest useable charge. I have great > success with using pwm chargers with deep cycle batteries and solar power > for work applications. > > Wayne > > Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android > <https://overview.mail.yahoo.com/mobile/?.src=Android> > > ------------------------------ > * From: * Chuck Alexander <[email protected]>; > * To: * <[email protected]>; > * Cc: * fly fishing for panfish < > [email protected]>; > * Subject: * Re: [VFB] Re: [flyfishingandflytyingforpanfish] Trickle > charger for my marine deep cycle battery > * Sent: * Tue, Dec 16, 2014 11:39:53 PM > > Wayne: Thanks a lot. That’s kinda what I thought. Slow like ME. But > you gave me a good idea for figure it out. It is rated at .75 amps so > wouldn’t it be 105 amp hours divided by .75 which would equal 140 hours > (about 6 DAYS) LOL. But I normally don’t run the battery below about 80% > which would be 84 ah divided by the .75 amps which would still be 60 > hours. Or am I using “common core” mat in which 2+2 does NOT equal 4 ??. > You’d think that since I was in an electronics job in the Air Force I’d > remember exactly how to figure this stuff but that was 100 yrs ago LOL > Thanks again, Chuck > > *From:* 'Wayne C Blake Hedges' via VFB Mail > *Sent:* Tuesday, December 16, 2014 5:19 PM > *To:* mailto:[email protected] ; > mailto:[email protected] ; virtual flybox > *Subject:* [VFB] Re: [flyfishingandflytyingforpanfish] Trickle charger > for my marine deep cycle battery > > > Hi Chuck it should but will take a long time to charge when completely > dead. 105 amp hours @ 5 amp hours would require 21 hours from dead to > completely charged. Would make a good trickle/maintainer charger I imagine. > > Wayneb > > > On December 16, 2014, at 6:14 PM, "'Chuck Alexander' > [email protected] [flyfishingandflytyingforpanfish]" < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Folks: This coming Spring (barring more health problems etc) my wife and > I plan to go fishing at LEAST a cpl times per week. My question is about a > trickle charger for my deep cycle battery I use to power my trolling motors > (we use two to get to where across the lake and back,then the foot > controlled one to troll the shoreline hunting for bluegills and/or bass “on > the bed”. Anyway,, till now, I have to heft my 50-60 pound battery into my > workshop, put it on the 2 amp setting on my 2/6/55/jumpstart big battery > charger, then lug it back into the back of the boat to go fishing again. > It’s been either that, or risking the charger getting rained on and ruined, > or electrocuting somebody. Anyway, this charger from Harbor freight in the > hyperlink below is a 3/4 amp trickle charger/maintainer. > > What I’m wondering is (even if it takes a cpl days to do it) is will this > little charger charger my 105 amp hour battery?? The manual with it says > it’s for batteries that are from 5 to 125 ah batteries. The 125 is more > than the max 105 listed, but I have read where ppl say YES it will charge > my battery, and others say NO it won’t. Truth probably lies in the middle > as in like I said, I think it will, but may take up to a cpl days to do so, > depending on how drained the battery is. Anybody here tried a charger like > this?? Reason I want this is because I plan to make a “bass boat” out of my > jon boat be decking it with plywood in the front and back, so we have a > place to stand up while fishing as my back starts to hurt if I sit all day, > so I plan to “permanently” mount this charger on my stern plywood piece, so > that all I have to do it run the extension cord to the boat and let er rip. > Thanks a lot. 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