Gang,
Let's get back to the basics regarding this charger

1. Can it be used for gel cells?
2. What is the maximum amp hour sized back it can accommodate?
3. If it cannot be permanently installed without getting us in trouble with
our insurers, can it be safely used as a "portable" unit?

--
Dennis Gibbons
S/V Dark Lady
CN35-207
dkgibbons at optonline dot net

Dennis Gibbons wrote:

Gang,
Let's get back to the basics regarding this charger

1. Can it be used for gel cells?
2. What is the maximum amp hour sized back it can accommodate?
3. If it cannot be permanently installed without getting us in trouble with
our insurers, can it be safely used as a "portable" unit?


I emailed the company and asked about AGM batteries, and was told it
could be used with them, because AGM was just another form of lead-acid.

I was also informed the charger, as I suspected, was manufactured in the
People's Republic of China.

That fact alone removes it from consideration for me. I don't knowingly
buy products made in slave labor or slave wage countries.


--
Email sent to is never read.

Political consciousness aside (the whole issue of wages paid to third world
economies is too complicated to be discussed here), the lack of an
adjustable maximum voltage (14.1 for gels) means I can't use it.

--
Dennis Gibbons
dkgibbons at optonline dot net
"Harry Krause" wrote in message
...
Dennis Gibbons wrote:

Gang,
Let's get back to the basics regarding this charger

1. Can it be used for gel cells?
2. What is the maximum amp hour sized back it can accommodate?
3. If it cannot be permanently installed without getting us in trouble
with
our insurers, can it be safely used as a "portable" unit?


I emailed the company and asked about AGM batteries, and was told it
could be used with them, because AGM was just another form of lead-acid.

I was also informed the charger, as I suspected, was manufactured in the
People's Republic of China.

That fact alone removes it from consideration for me. I don't knowingly
buy products made in slave labor or slave wage countries.


--
Email sent to is never read.

On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 13:14:10 GMT, "Dennis Gibbons"
wrote:

Gang,
Let's get back to the basics regarding this charger

1. Can it be used for gel cells?
I've recharged gel cells with it as small as 2.3AH battery packs used
in my old analog cellphone. Worked great! Kinda overkill,
though...(c;

2. What is the maximum amp hour sized back it can accommodate?
I've recharged 700AH golf cart monsters (2 in series for 12V). The
computer automatically adjusts the charge rate for optimum charge no
matter whether you connect a motorcycle battery to it or a big diesel
starting battery. The charger comes on, starts dropping the charging
rate until it gets the charging voltage under control, then it STOPS
maddeningly and just SITS THERE, waiting to see what the no-charge
voltage does during X seconds. Then, it comes back on at a new
setting to run its charging sequence. YOU set the MAXIMUM charge
setting with your initial setting of the buttons. If you charge at
10A, it won't go over 10A. If you set it too high, it simply charges
at the rate it wants to, keeping those-in-a-rush from screwing the
battery with heat and warped plates.

I set a 2.3AH gel cell on 40A and the charge started at 2A and in a
few seconds it had dropped to less than 1A when the computer figured
out what I had it clamped to.

3. If it cannot be permanently installed without getting us in trouble with
our insurers, can it be safely used as a "portable" unit?

Good question. Maybe someone knows.....

Does your insurance policy state you must use a marine charger?



Larry W4CSC

No, no, Scotty! I said, "Beam me a wrench.", not a WENCH!
Kirk Out.....

Dennis:
It seems reasonable that no-one would knowingly buy products built by slave
labor. But I challenge your assumption that they ARE slave built just
because they are built in the Middle Kingdom. Without meaning to do so,
you've projected racism rather than someone with an economic conscience.
There many legitimate business in China, staffed by folks who finally earn
more money than ever.

If these chargers are indeed built by "slaves"of the Communist jail system,
we should indeed boycott them. But we still don't know that.
As for me, I refuse to shop at SprawlMart for entirely different, irrational
reasons: They simply exploit American labor. (~: That said, I bet there's
a good source for these chargers elsewhere.

Let's find out cause I need one too.
DB

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
...
Dennis Gibbons wrote:

Gang,
Let's get back to the basics regarding this charger

1. Can it be used for gel cells?
2. What is the maximum amp hour sized back it can accommodate?
3. If it cannot be permanently installed without getting us in trouble
with
our insurers, can it be safely used as a "portable" unit?


I emailed the company and asked about AGM batteries, and was told it
could be used with them, because AGM was just another form of lead-acid.

I was also informed the charger, as I suspected, was manufactured in the
People's Republic of China.

That fact alone removes it from consideration for me. I don't knowingly
buy products made in slave labor or slave wage countries.


--
Email sent to is never read.

DB,
Someone snipped together a couple of posts. I never stated that slave labor
was used to make these products.

--
Dennis Gibbons
dkgibbons at optonline dot net
"DB" wrote in message
...
Dennis:
It seems reasonable that no-one would knowingly buy products built by
slave
labor. But I challenge your assumption that they ARE slave built just
because they are built in the Middle Kingdom. Without meaning to do so,
you've projected racism rather than someone with an economic conscience.
There many legitimate business in China, staffed by folks who finally earn
more money than ever.

If these chargers are indeed built by "slaves"of the Communist jail
system,
we should indeed boycott them. But we still don't know that.
As for me, I refuse to shop at SprawlMart for entirely different,
irrational
reasons: They simply exploit American labor. (~: That said, I bet
there's
a good source for these chargers elsewhere.

Let's find out cause I need one too.
DB

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
...
Dennis Gibbons wrote:

Gang,
Let's get back to the basics regarding this charger

1. Can it be used for gel cells?
2. What is the maximum amp hour sized back it can accommodate?
3. If it cannot be permanently installed without getting us in
trouble
with
our insurers, can it be safely used as a "portable" unit?


I emailed the company and asked about AGM batteries, and was told it
could be used with them, because AGM was just another form of lead-acid.

I was also informed the charger, as I suspected, was manufactured in the
People's Republic of China.

That fact alone removes it from consideration for me. I don't knowingly
buy products made in slave labor or slave wage countries.


--
Email sent to is never read.