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Old 05-07-2014, 08:51 AM   #7
Billylll
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Originally Posted by twistedtree View Post
No worries with the victron. Having a modern charger that is oversized will cause no harm, other than possibly spending more money than you needed to. All modern chargers regulate based on the battery voltage. If the battery is getting too much current, it's voltage rises. That will be detected by the charger and it will back off until the voltage gets back to where to should be. It's like the governor on your engine that varies the throttle to maintain RPM regardless of load.
That's partially true but if you don't tell many of the modern inverter/chargers your battery AH's it really has no way of knowing other then measuring the static voltage of the battery bank.
Bill
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