12.56V at the house battery 'plugged in'

[TripleJ]

Ive been reading the info on chargers here, but to be honest its a bit like a wall of text sometimes since this is my first time really trying to get this electrical system just right.

So I hooked up the house battery and measured voltage across the terminals.

With nothing on, the house breakers off and theoretically no load, I measured 12.69V at my freshly charged, been sitting for one week battery.

I went in and turned on some lights, about 8 single bulb fixtures and three double auto type bulb fixtures (1182s or whatever) and measured 11.55 volts.  Over 1VDC seems excessive for just lighting... but anyway

I plugged the coach in and to verify that it was charging, I went out and measured 12.56V and the battery

I think now I should have measured it plugged in with no lights, because it should have shown ~ 13V or more, right?

This is the only identifier on my converter/charger


What are the limitations of this old converter? Like is there going to be things I cant run in the coach while not plugged in to shore power?

[DaveVA78Chieftain]

For expectations with this Ferroresonant Converter /Charger please read this Triad-Utrad manual.

Dave

[Stripe]

can you get a better picture of the front? And maybe the top?

[TripleJ]

that manual had answers to questions I didn't even know I had. Very cool, thank you!


I will take some more pictures when I get home tomorrow

[Rickf1985]

Don't you guys ever sleep?! W%

[TripleJ]

I'll sleep when I'm dead 

[TripleJ]

There really isn't any room to get a camera in the space where the converter is. But do these help at all?





After looking at them again, I don't think they'll be very helpful...

[Oz]

It looks like there's plenty of room around the unit and it has a lot of vent holes in the housing.  I'm just wondering, is there any reason for concern about ventilation to reduce overheating?  I've seen converters in very tight places and don't have perforated housings like this one and it hasn't seemed to ever been a problem for anyone. 

[TripleJ]

Im certainly not certain about overheating... Hm? But this is located in the space under the rear bed.  I believe I will be the first to know if it does decided to 'vent'

As I am still working on ironing out the chassis, I havent gone any further in figuring these lectrical  things out.  However I can tell you that the camper hasnt burned down out in the driveway yet

[Stripe]

Mine is in the same place and so far no issues...

[ClydesdaleKevin]

You should be reading 13.2 at the batteries once they are fully charged if plugged into shore power.  You can upgrade easily and cheaply to a Powermax Boondocker from Best Converters.  Same overall shape and size, same plug in.  Just take out the old one, put in the new one, plug it in, and you are good to go.

I love ours.

Kev

[TripleJ]

I think I'll take that advice. Plus it looks like the 60w boondocker is on sale at the moment