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  Posted by Tim on March 8, 2017 at 5:38 am

  I’m dry camping at Detroit Deisel in Ocala, per TRUK’s suggestion, to do an overhead and bracket upgrade.

  It’s been a couple months since dry camping, so I’ve gone “pole-to-pole” without setting my inverter to “Absorption” for 3 hours, per the Trace manual.

  After four hours with the generator charging the batteries, the inverter was still in Absorption vs. switching over to “Float,” so I set the Absorption rate down to 2.5 hours, and it kicked into Float. Before I set the Absorption rate down to 2.5 hours, the batteries were at 14.2V.

  The batteries are four years old and I can dry camp with them for about 12-hours (No A/C’s) before I need to turn on the generator.

  Does this sound fairly normal or is it a sign that the batteries are taking longer to fully charge?

  Tim replied 9 years, 8 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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