Any experience with BZ Products [RE-wrenches]

[Todd Cory, Mt. Shasta Energy Services]

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I have the 500 watt unit and found the lack of ability to equalize a big 
wart. I have yet to power up the unit as I am awaiting some free used 
lead calcium wet cells... but from reading the manual it looks like the 
set points for float voltage are a bit higher than I'd like for these 
batteries.

Todd

Carl Reuter wrote:

>I recently bought a few 250 watt MPPT type charge controllers from a 
>company called BZ Products. The price is right at $70 and it comes with 
>a lcd readout screen for volts and amps. The one thing that annoys me 
>though and I would love to get feedback on this is that they call it a 
>two stage charger thats supposedly adjustable but I come to find it only 
>charges to a setpoint and holds the batteries to that point. Sure its 
>adjustable but thats it. How can anyone consider that two-stage 
>charging? Whats even more stupid is they call that float voltage. I'm 
>tempted to return the units even though I have two of them sold. Does it 
>seem ridiculous to charge a small system to 14.7 volts and then keep it 
>there for the duration of the charge cycle/ One customer would use it on 
>a sailboat so I am not as concerned since panels get shaded so 
>frequently when the boat swings around at anchor that it would be rare 
>that the panels would keep the batteries at 14.7 for long. I told the BZ 
>tech or whatever he that of all the places to cut corners not offereing 
>true 2 stage charging seems like the wrong approach. Carl Reuter
>Land and Sea Solar
>Felton Ca 95018
>

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