Is it safe to use a 5A charger to prevent deep discharge on a WattCycle?


  • I've got 2 battery banks to maintain.  One of them has a 50A victron charger on it and all winter I'll leave the camper plugged in so I shouldn't have to worry about parasitic discharge.  I have shunts on the battery banks and apparently those draw 12ma.

    On my second bank, however, presently I have nothing to keep it charged.   I do own a watt cycle charger, I think 60A model, but, I'd like to stick a 5A onboard lithium charger in to just keep that battery from discharging too far.  Is that a bad idea?  Would a larger charger be better?

    Or, perhaps rather than have either one of the 2 battery banks actively charging, I should disconnect them and let them discharge to 60% for the off season?   Is there a charger that would be appropriate to use that would keep them only partially charged like that?



  • My understanding is that they don't lose much charge if they are disconnected.  So my inclination would be to charge them to 60% and call it done.


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