Beware Charging Dual Battery in D4.

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Originally Posted by drivesafe

Wilbur, your will say anything that pops into your head.

That graph was was NOT ignored, it was discredited, and not by me but by someone who actually uses Fullriver batteries.

Try reading all the replies again!

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I couldn't find the bit where the Fullriver graph was discredited. What proof did this writer give in their post?

I am not sure why I have been singled out as the only one who is required to post proof for everything I post, but so be it.

I will start a new very brief thread for my last comment on this subject, and will include full proof of what I write. I just ask that anyone objecting to it also provide proof of why they object.

I have a question regarding these DC-DC chargers.

Is the Arrid Twin(smart) charger a DC-DC charger:confused:

We use this in conjunction with Drivesafes SC40 and never had an issue with charging both the second battery in the car and the camper battery, I'm hoping that when we update to the SC80 for the D4, we can keep the Arrid in the camper, you know the old saying(if it ain't broke don't fix it)

Do you know if it will be OK with the D4 system, being that the Arrid is quite old:confused:

Baz.

Hi Baz and yes it is a DC-DC converter and I also know your CT set up, when get your D4, you won’t need to change your CT set up.

Hi RoverLander, I have the Traxide USI- 160 unit and I run 3 Batteries of this unit without any problems. I highly recommend this unit for trouble free use.
I am not in any way connected to this company and I recommend this unit only by my own experience with the USI- 160.

Regards

James

Hi James,

Im glad your setup works and that you have no problems with it. Here's to cold beer (which I also enjoy with my setup).

Peter

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Originally Posted by RoverLander

I've had enough experimenting in getting to the answer I have.

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Hi Peter and to be honest, my suggestion to you to do some additional testing was really to show you, through your own testing, that you could save yourself a bucket load of money.

As already posted, when you add that new battery, you will make the use of the DC-DC device a waste of time because you will now need to do so much more driving to allow your device time to charge your batteries.

But just to give you a comparison of what you could have achieved for a lot less money.

If instead of spending around $500 for your DC-DC converter and now an additional $200 on a 3rd auxiliary battery and this doesn’t include all the additional cabling, to set up a system that will take quite a few hours of driving to charge your 3 batteries, if all your batteries are low.

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If you had spent say around $350 on an SC80-LR kit, which includes all the cabling, not only would you have a set up that works perfectly first time in a D4 ( you posted you had to work out how to wire your DC-DC device to eventually get it to work ), but because of the way the SC80-LR works, you would not need that 3rd battery that your current system requires, which means you would also save the loss of space and having to carry the additional weight needed to accommodate the 3rd battery.

Just a another suggestion that would actually make you some money. You could flog off your DC-DC converter on Ebay, buy and SC80-LR and by installing an SC80-LR, you would save even more money by not having to buy that 3rd battery.