Just got a battery charger victron ip67 and in manual it states its a 4 stage charger I was under the impression I was buying a 5 stage charger
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Battery charger ip67 states its a 4 stage charger is this correct.
The IP67 charger has 5 charge stages, namely: bulk, absorption, float and storage and refresh.
It starts with a charge test, then it cycles through bulk, absorption, float and storage and if the charger has been in storage mode for a week it will perform a refresh cycle after a week and then go back to storage mode.
If you include the initial test stage you could even say that it has 6 charge stages.
I find this answer interesting because I had not found any mention of the "test" stage in the IP67 manual. Yes a test stage would make six, and I was trying to figure out why the current IP67 Datasheet says "The seven-step charging algorithm gets the best out of your battery."
