On 10/5/2022 12:43, James Eaton wrote: > If you think about it, to do their charging cycle correctly, the whole > point of a smart charger is to check the condition of the battery each > time they start to charge;Â if they didn't, they'd be an old-fashioned > 'dumb charger' ... You're right, of course. I just wonder if any smart chargers are smart enough to know, when charging power is restored, and they find the battery at X%, whether the battery is at X% because the charger was in the middle of a particular charging profile five minutes ago when the engine was turned off to run into the sandwich shop. Or is it at X% because the van has been parked for a week after the charger finished a later step in the charging profile. And whether, with that little bit of memory, the charger can do an even smarter, better job of preserving the battery's life and capacity. |
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