ehuplad
Free Member
i seem to have a issue with the onboard charger.
when battery is around 80% charged onboard charger is putting in 13.6v and only about 4 amps so the batteries never get fully charged as i only run the genny for around 4hrs, on hook up all seems fine and batteries have enough time to get fully charged but we currently do not have hook up.
So today i thought i would try the battery charger i had in the shed a waeco iuou 4512 to see if it was worth fitting.
I connected on a temp basic via jump leads connected to genny through van electrics for onbard charger, without van electric, for waeco, here is what i found starting battery at 60% charge.
On board charger 17amps
Waeco 30amps
My questions are:
why does van charger go down to 4 amps ? should it not switch to 14.4volts from 13.6v to complete charge.
Can i just add connect the waeco charger to my batteries or do i need to disconnect the onboard charger first
when battery is around 80% charged onboard charger is putting in 13.6v and only about 4 amps so the batteries never get fully charged as i only run the genny for around 4hrs, on hook up all seems fine and batteries have enough time to get fully charged but we currently do not have hook up.
So today i thought i would try the battery charger i had in the shed a waeco iuou 4512 to see if it was worth fitting.
I connected on a temp basic via jump leads connected to genny through van electrics for onbard charger, without van electric, for waeco, here is what i found starting battery at 60% charge.
On board charger 17amps
Waeco 30amps
My questions are:
why does van charger go down to 4 amps ? should it not switch to 14.4volts from 13.6v to complete charge.
Can i just add connect the waeco charger to my batteries or do i need to disconnect the onboard charger first