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Originally Posted by noserider
Why is this important for the OBC to account for the energy used.
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Because the OBC will only charge back the batteries what has been taken out. I had a bunch of LED spotlights, winch, etc that was wired seperate, and over time, it brought my batteries down.
Think about this, if you go for a night stroll, and you use 1% of your battery capacity to run the lights, if you have it wired outside of the OBC, then you lose that 1% battery upon recharge. Think about doing this 30 times, now all the sudden, you can only recharge to 70%. I had a few nights where we rode for hours, with the LEDS on, so I was probably down to about 35-40 of what my batteries should have been, when fully recharged. A full recharge would get me about 47.8V. Now, it has me back to over 52V. This really worked well...