07-10-2022, 07:01 PM
Brad,
I worked with Bill to set up the charge profile. It was set to maximize the life of the batteries with a low float voltage, and cautious low battery cutoff. The profile in the ME-ARC is custom. The one huge to be aware of point is that the profile was intended for pedestal to pedestal use. It was not intended for boondocking or maximizing the amp hours in the battery bank.
I am going to assume that profile is still loaded into the ME-ARC. If you want to use that profile for boondocking, you must put the charger into CHARGE mode to completely fill the batteries before a boondocking excursion. They will not fully charge with that profile if left in float mode.
All that being said, let’s quantify how much use you are getting out of them boondocking. Charge them fully before boondocking. When you come off charge and start the battery use, RESET the amp hour meter on the ME_ARC. Then when you discharge them, record the amp hours used before the batteries recharged. That’s a 600 amp hour bank, so you should get 500 amp hours easily.
If you want to use the bank more aggressively, the ME ARC can easily be changed to more aggressive settings such as FLOAT at 13.6 to 13.8, and lowering the battery cutoff and recharge voltage to extract more juice from the bank.
There is no perfect setting. A lot depends on how you want to use the bank.
To Hexspeed, the setup he has does not have a Lithium setting per se, but it does have almost infinite capability in setting a custom profile for any type of battery.
Brad, if you want your eyes to spin, read this post. http://newellgurus.com/showthread.php?tid=1124
I worked with Bill to set up the charge profile. It was set to maximize the life of the batteries with a low float voltage, and cautious low battery cutoff. The profile in the ME-ARC is custom. The one huge to be aware of point is that the profile was intended for pedestal to pedestal use. It was not intended for boondocking or maximizing the amp hours in the battery bank.
I am going to assume that profile is still loaded into the ME-ARC. If you want to use that profile for boondocking, you must put the charger into CHARGE mode to completely fill the batteries before a boondocking excursion. They will not fully charge with that profile if left in float mode.
All that being said, let’s quantify how much use you are getting out of them boondocking. Charge them fully before boondocking. When you come off charge and start the battery use, RESET the amp hour meter on the ME_ARC. Then when you discharge them, record the amp hours used before the batteries recharged. That’s a 600 amp hour bank, so you should get 500 amp hours easily.
If you want to use the bank more aggressively, the ME ARC can easily be changed to more aggressive settings such as FLOAT at 13.6 to 13.8, and lowering the battery cutoff and recharge voltage to extract more juice from the bank.
There is no perfect setting. A lot depends on how you want to use the bank.
To Hexspeed, the setup he has does not have a Lithium setting per se, but it does have almost infinite capability in setting a custom profile for any type of battery.
Brad, if you want your eyes to spin, read this post. http://newellgurus.com/showthread.php?tid=1124
Richard and Rhonda Entrekin
99 Newell, 512
Maverick Hybrid Toad
Inverness, FL (when we're home
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