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Larry

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Okay, now that I've read the detailed description, I'm convinced this
will properly charge a deep cycle battery. My charger actually has the
word SMART on the front panel. I don't see that on the photos of this
one, but the description spells it out.

Man! I musta missed something REAL important!

Running my stepvan electronics shop is two 6V, deep cycle, 660AH golf
cart monsters in series into a 750W Black and Decker inverter from Wally
World.

Power comes from the nice 40A 115/240VAC completely unregulated,
uncomputerized, MANUAL battery charger from my buddy's Amel Sharki 41, a
seriously heavy duty, full duty cycle, charger. The only "settings" on
it are LOW - Medium - HIGH in both the 115 and 240V taps on the
transformer primary. At 115VAC, open circuit voltage is about 14.4VDC,
so the charge tapers off quite nicely ending up around 2A set on low,
which you wouldn't want to perk the batteries with if you didn't use
them.

There's never been another charger applied to these batteries that are 4
years old, next month I think. Gravity in all cells is around 1.260 if
you compensate with the appropriate thermometer and chart the way you are
supposed to....

If you computer experts see my truck in the marina parking lot...PLEASE,
don't let my batteries hear anything about "smart chargers" and "Three
stage charging" and all this other nonsense Waste Marine wants $600 for,
ok? Please?! They're living quite happily with me flippin' the switch
on and off by hand and puttin a l'il of my homemade distilled water in
'em when they're needin' it.

When the ON-OFF switch is ON, the golf cart beasts are paralleled with
the two parallel red AGM diesel starting batteries and it all charges up
quite nicely paralleled like that, too! Keep this talk away from the
radiator so the AGMs don't hear it, too!

Thanks......SHHH! Keep it down!!

Larry
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I think I'll boost 'em tomorrow, just to show 'em I still love 'em....(c;