On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 21:19:33 -0800, engsol
wrote:

I'm re-doing the 30 year old electrics on my boat.
I've bought the AC and DC power panels, etc.
Now is the time to think about the battery charger.
I like the the specs of the Xantrex Truecharge 20 Plus, but...
the specs suggest a battery size of 2 ea 4Ds or a 8D.
My plan is to toss in a couple (100 AH start, 100 AH house)
of flooded cell Group 31s for now, and later go to AGM
200 AH batteries when the boat kitty is well again.
Will this scheme work ya think? Will the XTC-20 work?
Norm B

It is generally recommended that flooded batteries can be charged at
up to 20% of their amper-hour rating - so for your 2 x 100 AH battery
system, the TrueCharge 20 is fine, and the TC40 might be OK.

The TrueCharge 20+ has a built-in battery isolator, so it can be
connected to up to three independent battery banks. I recall (but
can't find in the manual at present) that it only senses battery
voltage on output 1, so the house battery should be connected to that
terminal (but study the manual to be sure...)

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