Edd,
I would risk stating the obvious, but if only charging you do is during
motoring to the start line, your batteries will never get fully charged.
You need either the shore power or some other means (solar).
If you charge only during motoring, you at best end up with 80% charged
batteries.
Marek
Edd Schillay via CnC-List wrote:
Fred,
Thanks (and thanks to all who have provided advice and diagrams — LOVE
this f-in list!!)
So here’s my concern, which may be a non-issue because I’m not
understanding it correctly:
As I understand it, the Echo charger will transfer charge to another
bank when the primary bank is full (correct?) Since I mainly run the engine for
20 minutes or so powering out to a start line on a Wednesday Night, and if 20
minutes is not enough time to effectively charge the house bank, would the
starting battery then not get charged? And if so, would I not eventually drain
the starting battery to the point that I can’t start the engine without
combining?
All the best,
Edd
Edd M. Schillay
Starship Enterprise
C&C 37+ | Sail No: NCC-1701-B
City Island, NY
Starship Enterprise's Captain's Log <http://enterpriseb.blogspot.com/>
> On Jan 30, 2015, at 4:49 PM, Frederick G Street <f...@postaudio.net> wrote:
>
> Edd — it’s best with this kind of setup to have ALL the charging sources go
> to the larger house bank, then use the combiner or EchoCharge to keep the
> start battery topped off.
>
> Fred Street -- Minneapolis
> S/V Oceanis (1979 C&C Landfall 38) -- on the hard in Bayfield, WI :^(
>
> On Jan 30, 2015, at 3:32 PM, Edd Schillay via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com
> <mailto:cnc-list@cnc-list.com>> wrote:
>
>> My solar panel regulator has two outputs, so I could conceivably have one go
>> to the house and the other go to the engine battery (or maybe I shouldn’t??)
>
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