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Manzanita PFC-20B With Buck Enhancer Battery Charger

Our Price: $2,495.00

Product Code: BC-PFC20B

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Description

Extremely versatile battery charger. This charger is designed to charge any battery pack from 12 volts to 360 volts nominal (12 to 450 peak.) It is power factor corrected and designed to either put out 30 amps (if the battery voltage is lower than the input voltage) or draw 30 amps from the line (if the line voltage is lower than the battery voltage.)

The charger will operate from any voltage from 50 to 250 volts AC at either 50 or 60 Hz. The charger has a throttle knob to allow the user to turn the current down when using shared or undersized circuits. This charger is designed to operate at full capacity from a 30 Amp circuit.

Efficiency is 88% to 96% percent depending on input and output voltage.

Power factor is .92 to .9997 and depends on input and output voltage. Low output voltage from high input voltage is the former. High output voltage from low input voltage for the latter.

Safety circuits:
The charger is protected from reverse polarity installation by an internal fuse.

Over temperature conditions cause the current to ramp back to prevent the internal temperature from going over 160F (more air makes more power.)

The charger is programmed to be a constant current source and will survive a short circuit indefinately.

There is a programmable timer to shut off the charger after a user selectable period.

The charger is BatReg aware (turns down or off if a BatReg gets hot.)

This charger is non-isolated. The negative terminal of the battery is connected to the negative terminal of a rectifier bridge with the AC terminals connected to the incoming line.

The PFC series of chargers are designed to be as versitile and as powerful as possible within the limits of residential power infrastrucure. Extremely versatile input and output voltages

These chargers will operate on any voltage from 60 volts to 250 volts AC at either 50 or 60 Hz. Current is limited to about 20** amps input or output for the PFC20 and about 50** amps input or output for the PFC50. There are no switches to adjust to change the input voltage. The charger automatically adjusts to use whatever voltage is provided.

The charger output can be adjusted for any pack voltage from 12 volts to 360 volts with the twist of a 20 turn trimmer pot. There is no need to buy different chargers for the different electric vehicles you may need to charge. The charger can be reprogrammed to another pack voltage if you change the number of batteries in your system. **The actual power delivered is a function of input and output voltage. Refer to the performance charts for the various products to see how much power to expect in your application.

Extremely powerful for an onboard charger

The essential ingredient for fast recharge times is to deliver high power to the battery. The key to polite opportunity charging is to be able to share outlets with other equipment and make efficient use of limited current. The PFC line of chargers have a throttle to allow the chargers to be turned down to operate on very limited power sources such as small generators. The PFC20 has demonstrated putting 2200 watts into a 156 volt battery pack from a 2400 watt generator. Efficiency and power factor are both better than 0.9.