Omatako-
All smart chargers, even those in smart voltage regulators, will take a fairly long time to go from the point where bulk charging stops and the absorbtion and float phases end. An external regulator probably won't speed this up much.
A good way to solve the problem is to use the
alternators to do the bulk phase charging and to use an alternative source for the float and absorption phases, like a wind gen or solar panels.
An battery combiner or echo charger would be one way to deal with it. Do you have three separate banks--start,
windlass and house, or are the starter/windlass both on the same bank. From your description above, it sounds like you actually have three banks. What might make sense is to have the house bank separate, and
windlass bank echo charge the start bank (or vice versa).
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