I haven't used Balmar products for a few years. I did use their highoutput alternators and alternator smart charge controllers. They were extremely well engineered, well documented, and well supported.
As far a Bogart's monitor and charge controller is concerned I think it is smarter than it might first appear. It was designed years ago for sure and does look like I made in my garage (maybe that was the appeal for me). It was marked to RV owners. So maybe the manuals were designed to be more understandable to their customers. While they don't have the option to input Peukert factor,
"In addition, it has two advantages not usually offered in solar controllers to better preserve the capacity of your battery system:
1. Amp hour counting: Many battery companies recommend that when batteries are recharged they should be overcharged, so that 104 to 120 percent of the charge that was previously removed should be replaced before going into “float”. Most controllers don't measure this. When connected with the TriMetric, this controller measures the amp hours used, and allows you to specify the correct amount of amp hour overcharge when recharging. The more usual benefit of this is to insure that batteries are not undercharged. However it is also beneficial to prevent overcharging, in situations where solar panels are charging a lot during successive days but where very little battery discharge is occurring in the evenings.
2. Finish current charging: After the batteries are mostly charged, this controller has an optional “fourth” stage that is beneficial for liquid electrolyte lead acid batteries, and this is also sometimes recommended for some AGM types. This stage allows the voltage to go unusually high while it regulates the current to a specified level, to safely get more charge into the batteries. This helps to maintain the capacity of the batteries, which often begins to degrade with solar charged batteries because they don't get sufficiently charged."
I gave up on programming the Peukert factor years ago, its a moving target.
My approach with any charge controller is to reset it to 100% periodically when I know the battery bank is at 100% SOC. I try to keep my bank at 100% as much as possible. The Bogart charge controller gives two options for how 100% soc is determined. I won't go into it here.
I think the mains charger supplied in the Escape can't charge the batteries to 100%, the voltage isn't high enough and wire connecting it to the batteriesis too small. That's the advantage of a solar panel and programmable charge controller.
My long term plan is to open the converter and disconnect the 12 V supply function. Then install a proper 50 A, 12 V battery charger, connected to the batteries with wire sized for the job. So far most of the wiring I've seen on the trailer is undersized.
Bob
I passed on that - I had already had more of triple integral math than i wanted. One course I took taught laurent expansions - used to do math proofs. Now try to use that in everyday life! 
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