T&T: Pulsetech battery chargers??

[Chuck and Susan]

Rich, If you are referring to the Iota chargers for use in the engine room, it
is both my experience and the experience of others that have used the Iota
chargers for years while cruising that there is no adverse affects whatsoever
to the chargers being in the engine compartment. Chuck

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--- On Tue, 6/30/09, Rich Losch
<rich at richardloschinc.com> wrote:

 
> Chuck wrote  ".....We have just
>
installed the Iota Battery chargers...we
> will not go back to conventional
chargers again and the
> cost compared to
> "marine" chargers is no
comparison....."
> 
> This is timely for me in that I am looking for an
>
additional 12VDC
> charger, am positive about pulse technology (like magnets
>
in the fuel
> lines), and just prepared an order to IOTA for replacement
>
inverter
> ballasts for my engineroom fluorescent 12VDC 9W lighting
>
fixtures.
> 
> I've gone thru 6 ballasts in 2 years, and the problem
>
according to IOTA,
> is the high temperature in the engineroom, in that the
>
temperature
> underway is sufficiently high to degrade the ballast. 
> The
fixtures are
> recessed into the overhead so there is no good thermal path
>
for the
> ballast heatsinks.  I may add non-reversible
> temperature labels to
the
> ballasts this change-out.
> 
> So, I would be wary about installing any
RV or off-the-grid
> electrical
> device that was not temperature rated high
enough for an
> engineroom.
> 
> Rich Losch