sultangris01
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I have a 2013 F350 platinum with a stock inverter/110 outlets and ive used it multiple times over the last 9 months to charge my batteries without issue using the original stock dji 100w? i think charger, whatever the first one is, not the new 180w one, which i also bought recently, but ive never used it in the truck yet. It takes the same amount of time as it does in the house. these are smart batteries and will not accept charge if the voltage is too high anyway, they will disable themselves and not charge at all if overcharge is detected so its unlikely that is your issue.
what type of truck/inverter do you have? Most vehicles dont have overly powerful stock inverters and mine doesnt work at all if the engine isnt running. If the battery is close to fully charged and you stop charging it either by unplugging or shutting off the truck which kills power output from the inverter they will not resume charging to full 100% power when you plug them back in/restore power ive noticed as ive accidentally shut my truck off before fully charged once or twice. i have no idea how close they were to full when i accidentally shut it off but i do know that doing so made it think it was full and threw the battery power left counter out of wack a ways which caused me a sudden drop from about 30% to 6% battery issue. This was months ago on older firmware however and never happened again so i cant say for sure if the results on newer battery firmware would be the same. If youre using the larger 180w charger or have a vehicle with a weaker stock inverter than what the f350 has it might be charging for 30 minutes and then tripping the automatic safety shut off due to the charger trying to draw more power than the inverter can supply.
some people say if its not a pure sine wave inverter they can cause damage to electronics but im almost certain they are full of shit/overly cautious based on my experiences. im not 100% for sure but since they are much more expensive than a regular non pure wave inverter i highly doubt that the f350 uses pure sine wave inverters. I also live in a 2007 keystone cougar 5th wheel RV 6 months out of the year and have charged my batteries in it almost daily during those 6 months without issues. again i could be wrong but i think all the power to the RV outlets goes through the inverter first and im pretty sure its not a pure sine wave inverter either. I have 3 batteries with 40+ charges each and no issues using inverters to charge them so far. |
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