House Battery
I am looking for a battery for my fifth wheel. I guess it is called a "house battery". For the purpose of running my 12V system in the event power fails or for not being connected to a post. My pri...
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wa8yxm wrote:
While your math is good your assumption is not
You do not discharge MARINE/deep cycle to 80% discharge
It's not an assumption.
In the real world, it's done all the time.
One of the more humorous aspects of new battery technology is the way it downgrades the capabilities of the technology it's meant to replace:
- AGM batteries are introduced - and suddenly, you can't discharge conventional flooded-cell deep-cycle batteries beyond 80 percent.
- LiFePO4 batteries are introduced - and suddenly, you can't discharge conventional flooded-cell deep-cycle batteries beyond 50 percent.
At some point, some new battery technology will be introduced which will lead its proponents to conclude that conventional flooded-cell deep-cycle batteries can't be discharged at all! :B
