My Kid has been running for a few months now. I have not needed to water the batteries. At all. With the WFCO charger in my RV, I had to check the batteries every few weeks and add water.
I'm thinking since the Kid and the WHJR do such a good job of minding the batteries, that I could feed the WFCO charger output to the Kid when plugged in. This way the Kid will control the charge.
The WFCO is a 30A unit, I think. Need to check.
Any thoughts?
Crazy?
Good idea?
What Input mode do I use or do I just use a contactor to switch the input of the kid from solar to the charger?
Hi ZoNiE,
Do not know what is that WFCO, but assume that it is a line-operated battery charger.
In light of discussions elsewhere on this Forum, it is probably NOT recommended.
Here is a Link to one such Thread. At Post #10, boB explains some of the details:
http://midniteforum.com/index.php?topic=2280.0
One issue could well be that its output voltage is a bit too low to allow the KID to operate reliably, and it could quite possible damage the KID.
And, having Flooded batteries consume SOME water is usually a good sign that the batteries are being fully charged. I assume that you are monitoring the SGs of your batteries at least monthly (?).
Opinions, Vic
Sorry for the late reply. I do monitor my SG and my relatively old (2010,2011) GC2's are holding up well and the SG show proper charging.
I have to say that the care the Kid takes of my batteries leads me to want a shore power charger with the same circuits and software.