Charger profile #5?

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Subject : 09 e2, Deka 8G31(4yrs old), Delta charger. (Black dot)

My battery voltages are all over the place (13.6 to 12.4 at rest), and two of the batteries might be a little bit hurt(via load test). I have been reading up on all the past posts here so I thought I’d better check the profile the charger was using. I was expecting to see #14 but instead found it running #5?

Has anybody seen this before?

Digging deeper I found a master profile table(I think on the Delta website?) that has a page full of profiles which list #5 as for Trojan flooded batteries.

That same document offers a #6 profile for Deka Gels so I should probably switch to that, but these batteries might be already hurt. We shall see. I may be setting up for a battery swap.

Is there a difference between my #6 and your #14 that I should worry about?

Just for fun I stepped through all the stored profiles and found 5, 6, 7, 8,11, 27, 42, and 43.

I think I read that there was a special programming for the Gem Cars that had the list you guys keep referring to (13, 14, 15, 24, 25, 32)

I am guessing this charger was replaced and a generic one was grabbed off the shelf and wired in. #5 seems to be the first profile and the installer just left it running the default without checking or changing.

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yes Gem used their own numbers. Chargers are the same. use the factory charge code for gel.

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Thanks LG! This is what I was looking for.

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SOC usually doesn’t work with generic chargers

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SOC usually doesn’t work with generic chargers

Interesting. I will watch for this. Thanks.

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Only because it doesn’t go through the Gem shunt and interlock system. The charger itself is the same hardware.