So.....  ran fridge off battery for ~ 12 hours. Connected Genius
charger. It showed battery at 50%  Older  "intelligent" 2/8/12 Amp
charger showed it at 80%  (no hard science here!)  But....

Fridge off, connected old charger, set it to 12 Amps on "Deep Cycle".
In 1-2 hours, charger showed battery at 90% charger outputting 15.xx
Volts. (confirmed with a multimeter). Voltage seemed high so I lowered
output to 8 Amps. My Genius however, would not output as high a
voltage fridge running or not.

We'll see if this did a better job charging the battery. I suspect it did.

Had thought to use old charger as 110VAC - 12VDC converter, but it's
loud. Considered mounting it in space beside the water tank to cut
down on noise but I'm not sure there'd be enough ventilation.

Neil.

On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Don Hanson <dhanson928@gmail.com> wrote:

> ....   The general gist of the advice is to charge a deep cycle
> battery you need a lot of amps going in...and Smart Chargers (so called)
> aren't usually great for that...
>

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