Silent Knight 5104B help

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@chris+s

@Robert A

The panel with either trickle-charge or float-charge (to be honest, I don’t know the difference. Can someone enlighten me?) the battery as long as it’s installed so that when power goes out, it can keep the system running, and then when power comes back, the system can recharge the battery.

A trickle charger continuously charges the battery at the same rate as it’s natural no load discharge rate. Overtime, this can damage the battery and shorten the life of it. When the battery is full, the trickle charger is still charging it just extremely slowly, but it picks up if the battery is drained a bit.

A float charger actually monitors the battery and shuts off when it gets to a certain voltage, then turns on again when it gets below a certain voltage. That threshold is known as the float voltage, which on a 12v battery is like 13.85 volts or something. So the float charger keeps a 12v battery charged to that rate, then shuts off, and when it falls far enough below that voltage it turns on again.

Trickle chargers are cheaper of course.

Now I know about chargers! Now, correct me if I’m wrong… Trickle chargers might damage and shorten its life, however… That hasn’t been proven yet, (unless there’s a story behind it, maybe a video… I don’t know, something…) so therefore, like, and yet, unlike radio (transceiver) batteries… It most likely doesn’t harm the battery, it just keeps the battery fully charged… I’m not being mean or anything, I’m just throwing in my $.02 to believe of something which I could be wrong about… So, please… Correct me if I’m wrong about ANYTHING, thank you.