Re: (ET) Chargers

[Chris Zach <cz alembic crystel com>]

Interesting. Where did you get them and do you recommend a particular 
model?

Meantime I dropped in a spare charger and re-wired it for 50 amp AMP 
connectors (grey ones). Much better, I'll junk the old one, it's a big 
transformer charger unless someone wants it.

C

On 8/20/2023 2:41 PM, Robin Vasichek wrote:
>   Chris, check out SPE Chargers.  I bought several chargers from them.  
> Top quality.  Custom charge profile? No problem. (at least back when I 
> bought mine.)  I felt they were a good value.    
> .https://www.spechargers.com/en/  .
> .                                                    (RAV DofTI)
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> Ok, so last weekend one of the diodes broke on my E20 charger. Which
> meant I had to pull the charger which involved removing the deck, lift
> to get to the wires to cut off the bolts that were so badly rotted it
> wasn't funny. Pulling the charger showed that the diode assembly had
> rotted, the wires were bad, and the base was cracked.
>
> This thing is baloney. After 50 years I need a better charger. So who
> makes a solid 30-50a 45 volt fully programmable charger that will get
> these batteries up to snuff. Money no object and money moderate object.
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> Any thoughts? I don't want to put this pile of pig iron back in there
> and I don't need the tractor moving for a few weeks.
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> Chris
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