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Boat Forum / Electronics / July 2008Balmar 612 regulator
I installed the Balmar 612 regulator and selected the P03 - Gel battery program which has a bulk voltage of 14.1. Need to set the bulk at 14.4 as I use Sonnenschein Gel batteries. Went into the advanced settings and adjusted bulk (Bu) to 14.4 but the regulator still regulates at the 14.1 setting. Also the actual float voltage is 13.4 even though the P03 setting is 13.7 Have emailed Balmar who said it is operating normally??? Am I missing something on the programming or is the regulator faulty. Tony Temperature compensation? Wout | I installed the Balmar 612 regulator and selected the P03 - Gel | battery program which has a bulk voltage of 14.1. Need to set the bulk [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] | | Tony Travelmate <yachtambrosia@hotmail.com> wrote in news:597bbdac-ab1f-45b5- a475-7fd17a886c82@2g2000hsn.googlegroups.com: > I installed the Balmar 612 regulator and selected the P03 - Gel > battery program which has a bulk voltage of 14.1. Need to set the bulk [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Tony I think it's working fine. These are BATTERIES, not fine Swiss watches. A few tenths of a volt in any direction is of no consequence.... Cut the charger off and run the batteries down to 12.2V overnight, not at 500A discharge..... Turn the charger on and let it recharge the batteries for 24 hours....not 30 minutes. Did the voltages come back up to here? It's fine.....(c; The float voltage of any batteries isn't going to be what it says in the brochure, especially after the first 6 months. 13.2-13.8 is fine after the charger stops charging.... Too bad we can use my temperature compensated hydrometer, the ONLY way to tell what a battery is doing............................pity. Thanks for the replies. Can't run the engine for 24 Hrs as we are in a marina at the moment. Will run the shore power charger and check the Balmar regulator regularly. Have to disconnect it from the engine alarms and run a separate live wire to it. Will also disconnect the field wire. Tony |
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