Victron Inverter Aborption Light

[Chateaubateau]

Hi, I'm relatively new to this boating malarkey and have a question about my inverter. I have just had all my batteries replaced after one 'exploded', the boat is now hooked up to the mains, the inverter switched to charge, and the yellow 'Absorption' light is on. I assume that this is charging my new batteries up. The question is, will the charging automatically stop when the batteries are fully charged because it's eating the lecky at an alarming rate at the moment and I don't want to cook my new batteries.

 

Any advice or reassurance would be most welcome

 

Thanks

[smileypete]

Shouldn't take longer than 8hrs say during which the eleccy use should drop.

 

If any of the batts are getting hot it'd be best to switch the charger off at the mains, could be a loose connection.

 

What absorption charge voltage is the Victron set to, and what type batts are they? (sealed maintenance free, unsealed, leisure etc...) Also are you able to monitor the charge current going into the batts?

 

cheers, Pete.

~smpt~

Edited July 28, 2013 by smileypete

[Chateaubateau]

Thanks for reply Pete, I will go back to my boat tonight to see whats happening, hopefully the batteries will be fully charged and the electrics back to normal.

[Biggles]

This should tell you all you need to know.

 

The absorption light will stay on all the time the batteries are requiring it. Once the charge is "finished" the float light will come on and continue a minimal charge.

 

Linky

[bottle]

To get the batteries into float, there must be no load whatsoever.

 

If there is a load the charger will be running it and the batteries may well be 'full'

[nb Innisfree]

Victron has a maximum absorption charge of 8 hrs in any case.

[pearley]

I always switch mine to 'battery safe' mode if I'm on a shoreline for any length of time.

 

Regards

Pete

[bottle]

Victron has a maximum absorption charge of 8 hrs in any case.

 

That is the default setting it can be up to 24 Hrs if the settings have been adjusted.

[nb Innisfree]

 

That is the default setting it can be up to 24 Hrs if the settings have been adjusted.

As I understand it either 4hrs or 8hrs selectable via dip switches.

[bottle]

Depends on the model and whether you have the interface and a computer.

[jelunga]

Victron has a maximum absorption charge of 8 hrs in any case.

Unless the settings from default have been changed.

[smileypete]

I always switch mine to 'battery safe' mode if I'm on a shoreline for any length of time.

 

Regards

Pete

 

What does that do, does it fix the output voltage at say 13.8V so it's more like a constant voltage power supply?

 

cheers, Pete.

~smpt~

[pearley]

 

What does that do, does it fix the output voltage at say 13.8V so it's more like a constant voltage power supply?

 

cheers, Pete.

~smpt~

I have 'cruising settings' of No Battery Type, Charge Curve Fixed, Absorption @ 14.40v, Float @ 13.80v and charge rate at 90a. However, I find that after about 3 days on a shoreline my Smartguage will show an overcharge error.

 

So on shoreline I switch to Adaptive + Battery Safe which gives fixed settings of 14.20v abs, 13.60v float. The most obvious thing on this setting is that it switches to float before the batteries are at 100% but after a couple of hours will switch back to absorption. It keeps doing this until they get to 100%.

 

Regards

Pete