<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Allan,<div>First, depending on the age of that Sunfrost, it might be OK to use on either a 12V or 24V system directly. The older ones are 12V only, but I'm not sure when the changeover occurred. An email to Sunfrost should give you that data.<br><div>For over 15 years we've used a Vanner Voltmaster. Don't know if they are even available anymore and you need to have a battery system that you can tap at 12V into equal sections. Basically, they look at both halves and switch from one to the other based on a very small voltage imbalance. In the 98% efficient category. The Voltmaster will be way more money than your other choices and needs two CBs on it's input rather than one, but if max efficiency is more important than initial cost, they are hard to beat.</div><div>Bob-O</div><div><br><div><div>On Oct 6, 2009, at 10:04 PM, Allan Sindelar wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Wrenches,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Simple question, I know: what has worked well as a 24V – 12V DC-DC step-down converter for a Sun Frost? 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