Full River Battery Charge #49

September 14, 2011, Wednesday: Today, I drove another 14.6 miles.  Since the conversion and driving daily the EV truck has driven is 576.4 miles without fa ailure. 100% reliable.  The Ford Ranger Electric Vehicle arrived home today with a state of charge was ~60% or 150 Volts. Started automated charge of the Full River DC-250 AGMs with our PFC 30 Manzanita Micro Charger at 5:57 PM, at 27.3 Amps:I checked back at 7:15 PM at 9 Amps. Regulators on the peak batteries were regulating. Battery pair data below:

Peak voltages read were:
Reg 1: 14.50V
Reg 2: 14.47V
Reg 3: 14.51V Highest
Reg 4: 14.50V
Reg 5: 14.50V
Reg 6: 14.50V
Reg 7: 14.49V
Reg 8: 14.13V Lowest
Reg 9: 14.15V

Reg10:14.21V
Reg11:14.16V
Reg12:14.18V

Warm peak pack voltage, absorption, was 175.0V.
Charger was completely automated and not manually adjusted during charge. Charger reduced current to zero at 7:55 PM. Total charge time was 1 hour and 58 minutes.