Now I got all the zones to use for both 120VAC and 12VDC items. It also gave eleven 12VDC zones using those plug-in fuses. This gave me slots for eight circuit breakers with one main 30A circuit breaker. I changed it out using the WFCO 8900s series Power distribution center. What I original got was one main circuit breaker and four DC fused circuit similar to your 6612 unit I suspect. Your Magnetek 6612 is a small unit with one circuit breaker and maybe two fused circuits haha. They will work with you to get what you need. So I leave the circuit breaker for in the off position and then I added an external Progressive Dynamics PD-9260C Charger unit and it is plugged into a wall socket and feeds both the converter distribution panel and the battery terminals.Ĭheck out BEST CONVERTERs online. My WF-8900 setup has a WF-8945 45AMP 12V DC power supply here. This runs off one of the circuit breakers above providing 120VAc. It has the circuit breakers and plug-in fuses in the top part and in the bottom area it has a circuit board which would be the Converter Charger unit. This is a photo of my WFCO 8900 series Power Distribution Panel. If you leave it hooked for 12-14 hours it will get your battery up to it 100% charge state. The external smart mode battery charger will need to be hooked up for a good three hours or so to get your battery back up to its 90% charge state. The problem on just having an external battery charger is that I suspect most folks will only hook it up for a few minutes. It will also however boil out your battery fluids over time if left plugged into Shore Power so you need to check your battery fluids on a regular basis. The 13.6VDC will also charge your battery over time. This will tell you your Magnetec converter is working. Your interior lights should get alittle brighter if this happens. With your battery hooked up and working and not connected to Shore Power you will most likely see 12.4-5VDC but when you plug the trailer into 120VAC Shore Power that DC voltage you are seeing across the battery terminal should jump up to 13.6VDC. Most often these simple converters only put out 13.6VDC. This 12VDC can also be your battery charger. If the 6612 is putting out 12VDC to your 12VDC Distribution Panel then it is working. If you are not on Shore Power then a battery will supply the 12VDC to run your interior lights?. The interior lights run off of 12VDC and that power should come from your converter when plugged in to Shore Power. These are my experiences - You may want to hear from a few others on here before buying something expensive.ĭo you have interior lights when on Shore Power. Then when I get home a few days later than I will do the full 100% 14 hour charge run charge state before using my batteries again. 12-14 hours is long time for me to run my generator when off-grid so I only charge for the 90% charge state which gives almost full performance from the batteries. My three 85AH 12V Interstate batteries in parallel would demand right 53 AMPS DC current every time I started to charge them from the approximate 50% charge state (showing 12.0VDC)… These would get up to their 90% charge state in around three hours and up to a full charge state in around 12-14 hours. This is all well documented on the internet. After some 30 minutes this demand will start tapering off. The battery folks says if you want to charge a battery in the shortest amount of time you need to hit it with 14.4VDC and the battery will then demand around 17-20AMPS DC current to start charging. It still only produces 13.6VDC as a battery charger. I just don't use the WF8945 45AMP Charger installed in the bottom compartment except for an emergency. My WFCO 8900 series Power Distribution panel is still working great. I would probably steer clear from them based on my past experience with them. I still see a lot of new trailers coming out with them installed. This was back in 2008 so I don't know if the WFCO products still do this or not. It works everytime… The IOTA chargers are a good model as well That's when I swapped the WF8945 unit out for my PD9260C Smart mode charger. It always put 13.6VDC no matter what I tried including hooking up directly to the battery terminals. I could never get my WF-8945 Charge module to go into any of the smart mode charge modes. I never had any luck with the early WFCO Charger products even tho they were advisterised as SMART MODE CHARGERs. I thought I saw earlier you was asking about using a WFCO 25AMP converter/charger unit.
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