Renogy DC to DC Charger 12V 60A Lifepo4 Battery Charger - On-Board Marine/RV/Boat & Car Battery Chargers for AGM, Gel, Flooded, Lithium - Multi-Stage Smart Charging

Updated review - I made a mistake. I have a parasitic load on my system but it's not this DC DC charger. I pulled the charger out of the system and still had the same discharging of my batteries I was attributing to this charger. Adding the charger back into the system and no detectable difference to this discharge rate. This charger works great and it's easy to set up and modify the charging parameters through the app; which I really appreciate. Easy to set it up so it keeps my LiFePO4 house batteries at ~80% while my boat sits during the week. ---- old review ---- Charger works as advertised but there is a much larger than anticipated parasitic load when not charging. I estimate it to be about 1 amp. Drained a 100Ah AGM dual purpose battery from 12.7 to 12.0V in ~48 hours. Anyone else experiencing this? Is there a fix (softwear or otherwise)? This charger isn't useful for marine applications where there are often days to weeks between motor use with this magnitude parasitic load.

This charger is for my pickup bed/camper and charges a lithium battery. The power supply is isolated from the starter battery. This charger is set up to isolate itself from the starter battery. I didn’t read carefully about the two wires that appeared to be optional. They’re described in the manual and one is required. When the charger wouldn’t charge and I read instructions more carefully, I discovered the unit required connection with one of those little wires to a power source only on when the ignition was on. I made a wire, plugged it in the appropriate slot (requires a very small blade screwdriver) and connected it to the already isolated positive power wire input to the charger. Started the engine and the battery said it was charging at 20 amps. Perfect! The second little wire allows you to charge at 10 amps. I’m adding rocker switches to these wires so I can turn them on or off easily. There is a warning about using this charger around flammable fumes so I want to easily turn it off when hauling fuel.

UPDATE: I would love to say this a great charger, however I have received two of them and neither of them worked correctly. The first one was DOA when I received it. It cost me $200 to have it installed, only to have my installer tell me it was not working correctly, and pull it out. I sent that back to Amazon, but was out the $200 installation fee. Stupidly, I bought a second one because I like the company. I again paid $200 to have this installed in my RV under the passenger seat where apparently it needs to go. This one worked, so I was happy with it. It worked well, in fact, for all of three days into my vacation, then I noticed on my battery monitor that there was no charge whatsoever coming from my alternator. On vacation, 2000 miles from home, I had to drive two hours to an RV place to have this unit taken out. Removal and reconnection of my old wiring cost me $220 this time. Now I am up to $620 in installation and removal fees. I drove the rest of my vacation with the straight alternator and was fine. When I returned I called Amazon and they agreed to take back the unit even though it was past the 30 days. They said they would charge a restocking fee but that the fee would be waived once they received the unit. They now refuse to refund the 45.00 restocking fee because the unit is not in re-sellable condition, to which I can only say, Of Course not! The long and short of it is that it cost me $665 to try to make this work and as much as I like the company, it doesn't. The units I got were defective and I would not order this again from them.

I installed these units to charge the 2x 600ah battery bank(s) shown above. My instalation draws power from a 250 amp engine alternator. The charging units have primary input and output hookups of solid metal with machine screws to secure the wires. They also have 2x additional wire inputs. One wire input activates the unit, it will not charge untill voltage is applied to the "D+" terminal. This allows it to fuction as a battery isolator relay, whereby it wont charge untill its told to by the activation wire. It also has a second activation wire for a 50% power mode. This knocks the charging amperage down to 30 amps, and I highly reccomend wireing this lead to a toggle switch. I installed 2x units and found that a 250 amp alternator cannot power more than one of these at idle engine speed. At highway speed and higher rpm, I can run both units at 60 amps. but at night time with all lights on in the RV, I can only run one at 60 amps and the other at 50% power without overdrawing the alternator. The installation instructions indicate that they "may draw upto" 90 amps, but upon installation i havnt seen more than 65 amps. I installed 2 of these units which is kinda crazy, i did it by isolating two battery banks with a giant diode array, in the form of a battery isolator diode set installed "upside down" on the negative terminal side. but take note that a 250 amp alternator can barely power both of them when tacked ontop of the other electrical load for the RV. Installing one unit with a common 130-150 amp alternator it would be advised to install the amperage reduction function to avoid overtaxing the alternator at low engine rpm. The units have internal cooling cans that SUCK AIR from the electrical input side, and EXPEL AIR on the electrical output side. This information is only apparent AFTER installation, so ill include it here. 2 gauge cable worked fine. to install the activation leads, unscrew the tiny screw above the wiring opening, insert the wire, then tighten the screw. This information is not included in the instructions so i include it here. Since you will probibly wire the activation lead to turn the unit on whenever the engine is running, advise installing an interupt switch for that lead, or a giant battery disconnect switch for the voltage input as I did.

All good

Was delivered on time and worked as charm. I liked it.

I use this in my overlanding setup. I have a 24v system in my Toyota landcruiser and I needed somthing to connect from my 24v to 12v converter to charge an auxiliary battery. In my situation, my alternator puts out 24v, that will fry this thing. So! I wired it to the output of my converter (12v out). I asked the question before buying this and everyone said 'no it won't work'. I bought it anyway cuz my options were limited. Well, it works. My aux battery has been staying charged while I drive and my fridge freezer has been staying cold. Mission accomplished.

Equipo electrónico que cumple lo que ofrece con calidad, estoy satisfecho con la compra

Working as advertised but found out it’s low efficiency - while delivering 57A it takes 89A from alternator. Also there is no low voltage shut down so when car slow and stop on red light and RPM are low voltage drop below 11V and car (radio lights) not functioning correctly while it still sucks all these Amps.