Battery Question for Broad Knowledge ....
Dedicated to this site for 6 years I've read various battery Strategies. I'm getting ready to purchase (4) 6 volt house batteries. Asking because I don't know: what makes one batt better than anothe...
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One way to look at it is the two 6VDC batteries in series will make one VERY LARGE 12VDC battery.
The Trojan T105 6VDC BATTERY weighs 62lbs... When you connect two of these together in series then it becomes a 12VDC battery and will weigh 124LBS.
This inherently increases your reserve capacity.
When you connect two Trojan T105 6VDC batteries in series you will get 12VDC@ 225AHs.
When you connect two Trojan T105 groups of 6VDC batteries in series together in parallel then will get 12VDC@450Ahs.
You will almost get full performance of these two groups of 6VDC batteries for over 14 hours. This is pretty good as far as batteries go...
Of course these two groups will now weigh around 248lbs of batteries so you will have to deal with that on where they will be mounted. Adding 248lbs plus the battery box will add alot of weight to your trailer tongue if you mount these behind the propane tanks of a TT trailer.
My game plan living off the power grid is to run all of the 120VAC items we want to run using an INVERTER and the 12VDC items direct connected to the battery bank. Then we plan things out to only run enough items to drop our battery bank to 12.0VDC around 8AM the next morning. The 12.0VDC is close to being at 50% charge status on your complete battery bank.
This is when we want to re-charge our battery banks back up to at least there 90% charge state so we can do this all over again the next day/night run off the batteries. If you get your batteries back up to their 90% charge state then you can expect almost full performance from them.
We use smart mode technology for charging the battery banks which mean we can get to our goal of 90% charge state with only running our generator that will allow the on-board trailer smart mode converter/charger unit to recharge our batteries. This only take around three hours of generator run time which we can usually do at the camp ground that have generator run time restrictions in place.
Adding SOLAR POWER to our setup would only require me to run my generator for just a couple of hours and then the solar panels would take over and bring my batteries up to the 90% charge state during the daytime high sun times. Then at 4:30 or so I can start using my batteries again for the day/night run once again until 8AM the next morning...
I haven't got my solar panels going yet but this would cut down on us having to run our generator as much.
We have been camping off the power grid for 5 years now and can say we are very happy with our planned out routine for each day. One thing I have learned over the times is to always keep a watchful eye on the battery performance. I have this meter panel inside my trailer that allows me to keep a good eye on what is happening
Lots of planning to get here - you just can't just show up in the woods and it works haha... In our case it always got dark around 10PM at night...
I am NO EXPERT on batteries but there are numerous folks on here that are. I am just a user of the batteries...
Roy Ken
The Trojan T105 6VDC BATTERY weighs 62lbs... When you connect two of these together in series then it becomes a 12VDC battery and will weigh 124LBS.
This inherently increases your reserve capacity.
When you connect two Trojan T105 6VDC batteries in series you will get 12VDC@ 225AHs.
When you connect two Trojan T105 groups of 6VDC batteries in series together in parallel then will get 12VDC@450Ahs.
You will almost get full performance of these two groups of 6VDC batteries for over 14 hours. This is pretty good as far as batteries go...
Of course these two groups will now weigh around 248lbs of batteries so you will have to deal with that on where they will be mounted. Adding 248lbs plus the battery box will add alot of weight to your trailer tongue if you mount these behind the propane tanks of a TT trailer.
My game plan living off the power grid is to run all of the 120VAC items we want to run using an INVERTER and the 12VDC items direct connected to the battery bank. Then we plan things out to only run enough items to drop our battery bank to 12.0VDC around 8AM the next morning. The 12.0VDC is close to being at 50% charge status on your complete battery bank.
This is when we want to re-charge our battery banks back up to at least there 90% charge state so we can do this all over again the next day/night run off the batteries. If you get your batteries back up to their 90% charge state then you can expect almost full performance from them.
We use smart mode technology for charging the battery banks which mean we can get to our goal of 90% charge state with only running our generator that will allow the on-board trailer smart mode converter/charger unit to recharge our batteries. This only take around three hours of generator run time which we can usually do at the camp ground that have generator run time restrictions in place.
Adding SOLAR POWER to our setup would only require me to run my generator for just a couple of hours and then the solar panels would take over and bring my batteries up to the 90% charge state during the daytime high sun times. Then at 4:30 or so I can start using my batteries again for the day/night run once again until 8AM the next morning...
I haven't got my solar panels going yet but this would cut down on us having to run our generator as much.
We have been camping off the power grid for 5 years now and can say we are very happy with our planned out routine for each day. One thing I have learned over the times is to always keep a watchful eye on the battery performance. I have this meter panel inside my trailer that allows me to keep a good eye on what is happening
Lots of planning to get here - you just can't just show up in the woods and it works haha... In our case it always got dark around 10PM at night...
I am NO EXPERT on batteries but there are numerous folks on here that are. I am just a user of the batteries...
Roy Ken
