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Originally Posted by arctictraveller
Do you have enough experience to determine if it has shortened your recharge times? My guess is that it has or will.
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I sure hope so. It's hard to say with the solar charging going on at the same time. I was actually more worried about overcharging. The Lifeline batteries I have don't really like higher voltages than other brands need. Several years back I installed a standard XP-270 and it was pushing too high of a voltage at the house batteries. So I installed a new XP-270 with a lower voltage regulator and let the solar or shore charger to top the batteries off. I was just worried about the lower voltage alternator and the engines higher voltage requirements. So now I have better control on the voltage output. It's only been in service for two weeks and I haven't tweaked it yet. I'm hoping for the regulator to top the batteries off at the correct voltage per what Lifeline told me. Even the old 270 was a huge improvement in bulk charging over Ford's largest model that was able to fit in my 6.0 engine.
More on topic, I'd want the biggest stock charging system the manufacture offers if there is some issue with voiding a warranty. You can always upgrade to something different later down the road.