Also check your vent to make sure it is clear. ...After cleaning out the clogged vent
Any tips for "good" ways to check and/or clear the vent? Preferably ways that don't involve a hazmat suit...
Also check your vent to make sure it is clear. ...After cleaning out the clogged vent
picture 1 appears to show an "old" ferro resonant battery charger.
First thing I noticed, too. Get a modern charger before any new batteries.
Also check your vent to make sure it is clear. If it is clogged, you won’t get everything pumped out when you attempt it, even at a pump out station.
Any tips for "good" ways to check and/or clear the vent? Preferably ways that don't involve a hazmat suit...
Reading all these posts from the more experienced, i think I will double check on the charger. I had done a quick check last fall and seemed to remember that it was a 3 stage charger, but it is worth looking into again. Do any of you remember the model of the ferro charger that you all removed?
Mine is a lewco 1220 acd.
http://www.lewcoelectriccompany.com/Services.html
The battery charger that came with my 87 E34 is also the Lewco and it did work OK with my old battery setup, i.e. two group 27 wet cell batteries but when I added the third starting battery, I upgraded to the modern three stage charger with an automatic anti sulfation stage. Plus for long term operation at the dock I wanted the third float stage.
Tom do you have an electronic copy of the Lewco owners manual? I keep the old charger in the garage if I need to charge my car battery and the manual would be helpful.
Any specific brand and model recommendations? We have two AGMs
Bruce - Was the Xantrex charger one of the older models or a newer "TrueCharge2"?
The perplexing thing was that it just "stopped working". No fault codes, no blown fuse, no... nothing. It just stopped delivering electrons to the batteries.
...and then one day... BANG! ... she was pregnant.
..give it to your neighborhood electronics student/retired TV repairman to play with.
(laughing) I had about a dozen tempting responses but couldn't decide which was the least inappropriate, so... I'll leave it alone...
Good point, and I actually hung onto it in case someone (?) wanted to mess with it and/or scavenge it for parts. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
FWIW, my replacement charger is a MasterVolt 20A, recommended by the boat electrician who installed it.
I chose 20A (instead of 40A) since the boat is on the charger all the time and no need for more rapid charging.