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Originally Posted by aisbell
I forgot to mention that when I inserted my power meter into the charger circuit at the start of my rebalancing session, the input current measured 0.81 amps. After charging for about 4 hours, the input current had dropped to 0.49 amps. Can those measurements be used to estimate the output current? If so, maybe this would be a way that I could monitor the state of the battery rebalancing.
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I bypassed the timer in the engine block heater outlet so that the outlet is powered whenever its circuit breaker switch is on. My Insight had been parked for over a week, so I decided to run the charger/balancer for an uninterrupted 24 hours prior to embarking on a ~200 km test drive in preparation for a week's tour through southern Sweden next week.
Similar to my first charging session, the initial input current was 0.79 amps. After 23 hours of charging, the input current was considerably higher at 0.69 amps than it had been after only 4 hours of my initial charging session. The input current when the output is disconnected remains at about 0.16 amps.
I am surprised that the input current remained so constant over 23 hours and that this behavior differed from my first charging session. I would think that as the battery voltage increases, the input current would decrease more. This makes me yearn more for an output current meter or indicator of some kind. I feel like I'm shooting in the dark. Peter, have you had an opportunity yet to research an LED output current indicator?
