After a few years on my Rolls battery bank, I tried to skip one day on my Classic to get them charged only twice or three days a week.
Skip days on Classic is pretty simple: yes or no, one day on float and the other day on bulk.
As you all know, Canada is the most sunny place on earth and of course the bulk day is often a cloudy day.
Wouldn't skip day be more useful if it was related to the float charge? Something like, skip x days only after a float day.
This would avoid to get one full week without absorbing which is not really great.
Thoughts?
Erik
Hi Erik...
Skip days skips the Bulk/Absorb cycle.
This is to reduce water usage and increase battery life of Lead Acid batteries of course.
It will always go to Float either way.
The idea is that that complete Absorb time at higher voltage should not be necessary. The batteries can get full state of charge (typically) without going through that Absorb time as long as the Amp-Hours are put back into them.
That's the idea anyway. There are also schemes to be able to stop floating until the batteries fall below some "Re-Float" voltage. We don't do that but certainly could. There are all sorts of things you could do with an external controller like Raspberri Pi or something like that.
boB