- Messages
- 2,729
- Reaction score
- 1,358
- Points
- 222
- Location
- Lake Oconee, GA (Greensboro)
- Boat Make
- Yamaha
- Year
- 2016
- Boat Model
- 242 Limited S E-Series
- Boat Length
- 24
Once again, Totally sage advice. Hopefully more and more owners will read this post carefully, David, and learn from it.An ACR/VSR causing a dual bank charger to send a bulk charge to a fully charged battery and create an over-charge scenario may be just a bit extreme .... But it is a shame to turn a smart charger into a blunt charger with not much more of a fine touch than an alternator/stator. It's virtually impossible to devise a perfect charging system when one alternator/stator is often connected to two battery banks, whether in a boat, car or RV.
With a large audio system combined with a large battery A/H capacity combined with deep cycling at rest combined with a lite boat charging system (Yamaha), combined with an ACR/VSR, you have greatly increased your dependency on shore charging since there are going to be times when the ACR/VSR is not going to close out on the water. And, there may be times that the stereo bank will never see a charge again until it sees the shore charger.
I completely agree that you have got to have a dual bank charger and a scheme to keep the ACR/VSR fixed 'open' while in storage so the charger can profile and service each bank independently. This may not be as critical when the house bank only had to service a fishfinder at rest and the depletion was minimal. But once you cross over into big audio systems and big battery reserves you really need isolated shore charging and the ACR/VSR scheme needs to support this.
It's kinda amusing that people will spend between $30K and $60K on a watercraft, and then make cheap-a** decisions involving important items like this one to save MAYBE $100. And actually in the long-run maybe cause themselves additional problems. Anyways.....Great post - Once again !
Mikey Luleian - Lake Oconee, GA