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Looking for advice on a quality replacement charger for a 1992 Hymer S670, this was fitted with a Schaudt LA 200 charger as original.
The original charger appeared to fail a while ago so bought a Schaudt replacement, a LA 1210 which was the more modern direct replacement. This has completely failed too for the following reasons -
With both a combination of batteries well beyond their life (ABS (battery supplier) only give a short Warranty as even they think their batteries won't perform to spec after that time) and too big a battery bank you have stretched the charger too far and taken it outside Warranty.
So having a 10 amp charger ( the LA 200 & LA 1210 are both 10 amps rated) trying to charge 2 x 85 amp batteries = 170 amps, (I have now learned that a 10 amp charger will charge 100 amps only), and having leisure batteries which came with a 2 year warranty being 5 years old which is too old as I am told, this charger failed.
I think the full ramifications of matching charger to battery bank size and age are not fully understood by the majority, hope this example helps others.
That is now water under the bridge and wish to move forward. I will replace the batteries with either 85 or 100 amp batteries, so 170 or 200 amp leisure battery bank.
Can anyone recommend a suitable motor home charger for this classic Hymer set up please?
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Looking for advice on a quality replacement charger for a 1992 Hymer S670, this was fitted with a Schaudt LA 200 charger as original.
The original charger appeared to fail a while ago so bought a Schaudt replacement, a LA 1210 which was the more modern direct replacement. This has completely failed too for the following reasons -
With both a combination of batteries well beyond their life (ABS (battery supplier) only give a short Warranty as even they think their batteries won't perform to spec after that time) and too big a battery bank you have stretched the charger too far and taken it outside Warranty.
So having a 10 amp charger ( the LA 200 & LA 1210 are both 10 amps rated) trying to charge 2 x 85 amp batteries = 170 amps, (I have now learned that a 10 amp charger will charge 100 amps only), and having leisure batteries which came with a 2 year warranty being 5 years old which is too old as I am told, this charger failed.
I think the full ramifications of matching charger to battery bank size and age are not fully understood by the majority, hope this example helps others.
That is now water under the bridge and wish to move forward. I will replace the batteries with either 85 or 100 amp batteries, so 170 or 200 amp leisure battery bank.
Can anyone recommend a suitable motor home charger for this classic Hymer set up please?