Friday, October 26, 2012

Re: [Electric Boats] Re: Lead battery charging

 

On 27/10/12 02:20, oak wrote:
> And even then, it's hard to tell whether the charger is putting out
> any current or not. I guess I should be able to put an ammeter in
> line with the charger and see what's going on.
>
Shouldn't you have an ammeter in the line anyway ? - knowing current
draw when running is probably even more important. And the smarter 'BMS'
systems measure current both ways and do calculations on charge state.
My TBS battery meter does that.

When I first connected it up, I had the sense wires to the shunt the
wrong way around, so it was measuring discharge as charge and vis, so it
wasn't giving me a run time figure. Took me a while to realise what i'd
done wrong as the currents it was measuring were sensible, just the
wrong direction....

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