Its an experiment so its not going to blow up anything, especially not the 1.5ah mini lead battery.
But anyway, here is the huge advantage over an alternator protection device....
So..when you have one of these mini lead
batteries in parallel with your huge lifepo4 bank. You can test all your stuff like alternator and multiplus configurations ...all on the mini lead acid battery. you immediately see
charging cutoff points from the alternator regulators and multiplus configurations. This enables you to immediately check without the long wait that can occur when you have such a big capacity battery. All configuration changes can be made in 5 minutes as the times between empty and full on a 1.5ah battery are very short.
Your configuration says it cuts off at 27.2/13.6v or whatever you set to, so now you can verify it, instead of just believing it...you do verify it right??
So think about that....is this not a far superior solution than the APD.
Now, I hear what you are thinking..."
you can't run a 150ah alternator into only a 1.5ah battery"
well... I've been using this
charging configuration test method for a while now.
So what do you all think....will the alternator be damaged when I disconnect the huge Lifepo4 from the alternator, leaving only the 1.5ah mini lead battery connected?
So far, no one has commented clearly on this ...I guess there is no real hurry as I won't be doing the experiment for a while yet...