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Old 23-06-2014, 09:34   #1
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dual battery chargers

I have 2 battery chargers on board 1 12 amp promariner with dual outputs for the start battery and 1 Charles marine 30 amp for the house bank. Can I put one set of leads from the promariner onto the house bank as well as the Charles charger. Thoughts are when I'm anchored out my little Honda 2000 gen recharges my batteries wouldn't this charge my house bank faster. Thanks
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Yes in bulk mode charging., both chargers will contribute current to the charging process. You will find that later in the charge cycle, only one charger is really working.


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Thanks that's all I really wanted was to help load up the batteries a little quicker. If my thinking is correct this should give me 42 amps charging during the bulk phase at least help charge a little quicker.
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Thanks that's all I really wanted was to help load up the batteries a little quicker. If my thinking is correct this should give me 42 amps charging during the bulk phase at least help charge a little quicker.
Yes you mightn't get exactly the addition of the rated output of the chargers, but reasonably close.

Note don't install the chargers close together. The other things is that cheap an nasty chargers can sometimes not have there switched mode properly compensated and can get unstable with another switched mode supply on the same circuit.

The solution is small series resistance in each chargers lead.

but I'd just try them

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Re: dual battery chargers

I beg to differ. One of the chargers will charge at a slightly higher voltage than the other, and that will tell the lower voltage one that the batteries are fully charged, and it will shut down.
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Thanks that's all I really wanted was to help load up the batteries a little quicker. If my thinking is correct this should give me 42 amps charging during the bulk phase at least help charge a little quicker.
It is easy to do a dock test as I did with my 50A & 70A chargers (@24v)
I let the bank draw down 65% and shut off all DC consumers.

Also all AC consumers so I could measure the efficiency of the different chargers combined and individually.

By measuring charge rates thru the Bulk range and into Absorbtion while logging the difference combined and individually I was then able to identify when to turn the 2nd charger off.

Repeated test 3 times to confirm results and made a nice spreadsheet for future checks of house bank condition.
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