Last updated: 16 September 2026
Battery and charging
- Battery profiles it carries
- Five profiles, including lithium and a user-defined one
- Boost voltage, per chemistry
- AGM 14.6, Gel 14.2, Flooded 14.6, Lithium 14.4 V
- Float stage on lithium
- No float stage at all on the lithium profile
- Boost timer on lithium
- The two-hour boost timer does not apply to lithium
- Which batteries it will equalize
- Equalization is for vented and flooded lead acid only
- Temperature compensation
- None on lithium; -3mV/°C/2V on everything else
“Battery Types AGM/SLD , GEL ,FLD ,LI,USER”
Source: renogy.com/products/dcc50s-12v-50a-dc-dc-on-board-battery-charger-with-mppt
“Boost Voltage 14.6V 14.2V 14.6V 14.4V 14.4V 9.0-17.0V”
Source: renogy.com/cdn/shop/files/RBC30D1S-G3_G4_RBC50D1S-G6_DC-DC_with_MPPT_EN__UM_B5.pdf
“Float charging is not applicable to lithium batteries.”
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“Boost Duration is not applicable to lithium batteries.”
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“This stage is only available for batteries with equalization, such as non-sealed, vented, flooded, and wet cell lead acid batteries.”
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“Temperature Compensation -3mV / ℃ / 2V (Non-Lithium) ; 0mV / ℃ / 2V (Lithium)”
Source: renogy.com/products/dcc50s-12v-50a-dc-dc-on-board-battery-charger-with-mppt
Battery care and safety
- Overvoltage shutdown, per chemistry
- 16.0 V on every chemistry except lithium, which is 16.4 V
- Temperature sensor and lithium
- Do not fit the temperature sensor to a LiFePO4 pack with a BMS
“Overvoltage Shutdown 16.0V 16.0V 16.0V 16.4V 16.0V 9.0-17.0V”
Source: renogy.com/cdn/shop/files/RBC30D1S-G3_G4_RBC50D1S-G6_DC-DC_with_MPPT_EN__UM_B5.pdf
“Do not use the temperature sensor on a LiFePO4 (LFP) battery which comes with a battery management system (BMS).”
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Compatibility
- Battery voltage window
- 9–16 VDC — a 12-volt system only
- Alternator input it accepts
- 13.2–16 V from a traditional alternator, 12–16 V from a Euro 6 smart one
“Battery voltage Range 9-16VDC”
Source: renogy.com/products/dcc50s-12v-50a-dc-dc-on-board-battery-charger-with-mppt
“Alternator Input Voltage Traditional Alternator: 13.2-16VDC ; Smart Alternator (Euro 6): 12-16VDC”
Source: renogy.com/products/dcc50s-12v-50a-dc-dc-on-board-battery-charger-with-mppt
Conditions and exclusions
- If the wrong profile is selected
- Choosing the wrong profile voids the warranty
“Incorrect battery type selection resulting in damage will not be covered by warranty.”
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Compatible batteries
These batteries are here because the published figures line up, not because anyone has said they go together — that is our reading of two documents that never mention each other, not a claim by either maker and not a test by us. Even where every figure agrees, these are not established:
- Which charge profile the charger is actually set to — several publish four or more, and only one of them is this pack’s chemistry
- What it holds the pack at once bulk charging ends, which is a different figure from the one it boosts to, and which some profiles do not apply at all
- The charge current the pack will accept, against what the charger delivers into it
- Whether the charger can restart a pack its own BMS has already disconnected
- The wiring in between — where a converter feeds a distribution panel, the pack is one load on a circuit rather than a device on the end of a lead
Worth confirming with the charger's manufacturer or a dealer before buying.
Source: renogy.com/cdn/shop/files/RBC30D1S-G3_G4_RBC50D1S-G6_DC-DC_with_MPPT_EN__UM_B5.pdf
THE PACK'S OWN MAKER NAMES THE KIND OF CHARGER AND THIS IS ONE. Renogy say of this battery: “Only a charger made for AGM or sealed lead-acid”, and the DCC50S carries an AGM/SLD profile. The figures agree as well as the category does. On that profile the charger boosts to 14.6 V and floats at 13.8 V; the pack asks for 14.4 V to 14.8 V in cycle use and floats at 13.6 V to 13.8 V. Both charger figures sit inside both of the pack's windows. Set the charger to AGM/SLD: on the Gel profile it would boost to 14.2 V, below what this pack asks for.
TWO TENTHS OF A VOLT SHORT, AND BOTH FIGURES ARE RENOGY'S. This pack's datasheet gives a charge voltage of 14.6 V. The DCC50S's Li (LFP) profile boosts to 14.4 V. The pack charges — 14.4 V is well inside its 10.8 V to 14.6 V window and it is the right chemistry profile — but it is not held at the figure its own maker prints for it, and the two products come from the same company. Neither number is preferred here and neither is adjusted. The charger's user-defined profile can be set anywhere from 9.0 V to 17.0 V, which is the route to 14.6 V if a reader wants it; Renogy warn that an incorrect parameter setting voids the warranty. The lithium profile also applies no float stage and no boost timer, so the pack is not held at any voltage once charging ends.
THE GAP RUNS THE OTHER WAY ON THIS ONE. The pack asks for 14.2 V and the charger's Li (LFP) profile boosts to 14.4 V — two tenths above rather than below — and the pack's own stated range runs to 14.8 V, so the charger's figure is inside it. As on every lithium pairing here the charger applies no float stage, so the higher boost figure is not held indefinitely. Worth reading beside the 100Ah trolling-motor pack on the same charger, where the same 14.4 V sits BELOW that pack's stated 14.6 V: one charger setting, two Renogy packs, and it misses both in opposite directions.
Sources
- Renogy DCC50S — User Manual, section 6.2 Battery Charging ParametersManufacturer document
Renogy
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Retrieved September 14, 2026
- 12V 30A/50A DC-DC On-Board Charger with MPPT | Renogy USArchived document
Source: renogy.com/products/dcc50s-12v-50a-dc-dc-on-board-battery-charger-with-mppt
Retrieved September 15, 2026