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Forum: Electrical | Charging, Systems, Solar and Generators 07-09-2016, 02:54 PM
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Views: 10,072
Posted By booster
Very will stated! Timely and accurate charging,...

Very will stated! Timely and accurate charging, IMO, is much more important than not going under 50%. Unfortunately, most of the chargers don't do a very good job of getting totally full, but I...
Forum: Electrical | Charging, Systems, Solar and Generators 07-08-2016, 09:44 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 10,072
Posted By booster
There were also some questions about how Peukert...

There were also some questions about how Peukert figured into the 50% rule in this thread. Based on the discussion we had in this thread:
...
Forum: Electrical | Charging, Systems, Solar and Generators 07-08-2016, 09:38 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 10,072
Posted By booster
There have been a couple of discussions that had...

There have been a couple of discussions that had some Smartgauge questions and information in them, and Smartgauge addresses the 50% rule as follows:



If you compare what they say to what the...
Forum: Electrical | Charging, Systems, Solar and Generators 07-07-2016, 10:11 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 10,072
Posted By booster
This has been the big question for a lot of...

This has been the big question for a lot of people. As best that I have been able to find out, from multiple calls to manufacturers and specs that are available:

* The number one killer of marine...
Forum: Electrical | Charging, Systems, Solar and Generators 07-06-2016, 08:41 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 10,072
Posted By booster
I haven't found any graphs on the Northstar...

I haven't found any graphs on the Northstar either. What they do say is 900 cycles at 50% and 400 cycles at 80% down, so that would be 45,000 and 32,000 amp hours in the theoretical 100 ah battery. ...
Forum: Electrical | Charging, Systems, Solar and Generators 07-06-2016, 06:52 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 10,072
Posted By booster
I completely agree. It is hard to imagine how...

I completely agree. It is hard to imagine how the 50% rule got so ingrained into the battery knowledge base, unless it is just the easy excuse for early battery failures (which more likely were from...
Forum: Electrical | Charging, Systems, Solar and Generators 07-06-2016, 06:39 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 10,072
Posted By booster
It would sure be fun to see a cycle life vs DOD...

It would sure be fun to see a cycle life vs DOD curve for Costco, Sam's, and Walmart GC2 batteries to see where they fall in relation to the two versions of the Trojan deep cycles.
Forum: Electrical | Charging, Systems, Solar and Generators 07-06-2016, 06:37 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 10,072
Posted By booster
It is hard to figure how it all settles out, I...

It is hard to figure how it all settles out, I think, especially the Odyssey information. Over the years, almost all the reading I have done about Odyssey and Lifeline mostly called them both among...
Forum: Electrical | Charging, Systems, Solar and Generators 07-06-2016, 03:48 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 10,072
Posted By booster
The bang for buck of cheap wet cells may well be...

The bang for buck of cheap wet cells may well be a good choice, if they are GC2 style, which seem to get longer life in most brands compared their normal deep cycle batteries. Even Trojan has...
Forum: Electrical | Charging, Systems, Solar and Generators 07-06-2016, 02:24 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 10,072
Posted By booster
Getting back to the 50% rule, there were...

Getting back to the 50% rule, there were questions about the various battery types and how they behave when looking at total AH over their lives vs DOD. Getting really good, comparable data is not...
Forum: Electrical | Charging, Systems, Solar and Generators 06-25-2016, 11:35 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 10,072
Posted By booster
If I read it right, it is .05 cents per ah, so...

If I read it right, it is .05 cents per ah, so $.0005 in dollars.

I can afford that:)
Forum: Electrical | Charging, Systems, Solar and Generators 06-25-2016, 11:19 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 10,072
Posted By booster
We have one on our tv and have since we put in...

We have one on our tv and have since we put in that tv because it is a home set that runs off a 12 "brick" that plugs into the wall when on 110v power. The brick generates a very stable voltage, so...
Forum: Electrical | Charging, Systems, Solar and Generators 06-25-2016, 10:15 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 10,072
Posted By booster
What started the discussion on the other thread...

What started the discussion on the other thread was lithium, which showed they did do much worse at deeper discharges, then the first actual graph found of total amp hours over the life of the...
Forum: Electrical | Charging, Systems, Solar and Generators 06-25-2016, 04:57 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 10,072
Posted By booster
Lots of information on that topic in this...

Lots of information on that topic in this discussion that starts with this post in a long thread.
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