Low AC voltage effect on battery charging?

[SunSeeker1]

Sometimes I have to charge my gel battery (not agm) with the generator, but the voltage coming is 200v (fluctuates between 190 and 210) instead of a steady 230v.

My question is, will this have any negative effects on the battery? Will it be able to become fully charged? Will the charging take longer?.

[Mike90250]

Lower line voltage usually results in slower charging, and depending on the line voltage, and quality of the charger, you may not have enough voltage to completely charge.

[Sunking]

No effect if the charger is Switch Mode and will work from 90 to 300 volts. What changes is as the voltage goes lower, current must go higher to the charger to maintain constant power output.

Question is what kind of charger do you have? Look at the charger name plate and look for Input Voltage Requirement will answer your question.

[SunSeeker1]

No effect if the charger is Switch Mode and will work from 90 to 300 volts. What changes is as the voltage goes lower, current must go higher to the charger to maintain constant power output.

Question is what kind of charger do you have? Look at the charger name plate and look for Input Voltage Requirement will answer your question.

Charger says input is 220v +/- 15%. In calculation that means it could go as low as 187 so I should be fine.

Question is, what if the voltage took a dip and went to 185. What would happen then?

[Mike90250]

Charger says input is 220v +/- 15%. In calculation that means it could go as low as 187 so I should be fine.

Question is, what if the voltage took a dip and went to 185. What would happen then?

Who knows. It's going to be luck, no effect, shut down, slow down, or oscillate ?

[Paul Land]

Charger says input is 220v +/- 15%. In calculation that means it could go as low as 187 so I should be fine.

Question is, what if the voltage took a dip and went to 185. What would happen then?

Add Capacitor on output to control oscillation

[Sunking]

Add Capacitor on output to control oscillation

What a waste of Internet bandwidth. A capacitor wil have absolutely no effect whatsoever. Quit giving horrible advice and quit pretending you know what you are talking about. .

[Mike90250]

Add Capacitor on output to control oscillation

WTF are you talking about.? How about a new years vacation.

You can't just blurt out some random nonsense, what if someone went to radio shack and got a 10 uf cap for their supply and wired it up wrong, or got the wrong voltage, or fried their power supply or their fingers.

Best case, they wire it up somewhere (does it go on the generator regulator, generator output, or charger output ? ) and it doesn't work because you've given no idea of the size & location of the cap.