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Originally Posted by dayofpain
overcharging on a 12 volt system would occur @ around 16 volts, however more consistent charging would equal longer battery life. Also the Buddyclub condensor comes with the extra 3 grounding wires. Thus no run with condensor alone. Heres some dyno numbers if you DONT think that buddy club/ apexi / sun are big fat liars.
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As I recall from my Battery research, you can start outgassing and overcharging before 16 volts... Voltage is not important up to 95+% charge or so, but once a wet Lead Acid battery hits full charge, you don't want to feed it much more than 13 volts to avoid excessive gassing and possible plate damage.
I wonder how much of that power can be attributed to the condenser/regulator... I'd bet it is close to 100% of it. To bad many of us can't use it in our Autocross classes.
What we need is some monster diodes that allow huge amonts of current out of the battery, but a real smart charger, preferably with soem pulse-anti-sulfating technology on the charging side.
Where are those LEDs Shawn was going to use when you need them.
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Forgot to mention... Thanks for the cool data. Good work.