battery choice
Hi, I am in analysis paralysis. I will be purchasing AGM jars. Here are my two choices: AGM L-16 Surrette 400 amp-hour six volt with 0.145 plates cost $520 plus tax and shipping Four are n...
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MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
I was faced with over a hundred pages of documentation and specification corroboration (When was the last date your alternator test bench ammeter was factory calibrated?).
I hear ya.
If you think that documentation is a bit much ... try managing a crew that's responsible for instrumenting, lighting up, and running to solid fuel burnout ... Minuteman 1st/2nd/3rd stage booster engines in the desert for a few years. After each automatic calibration, the instrumentation accuracy was maintained with circuit resistors costing the taxpayers around $100 apiece (back then) ... and we had hundreds of them in the spare components inventory. The whole thing was a paperwork headache.
Sooooo .... I guess you're maintaining that it would be OK for me to float new Concorde AGM batteries at ~13.8 volts when they recommend only ~13.2 volts? This would then be float-treating any new Concordes I buy the same way I have been float-treating my Interstate AGMs at ~13.8 volts all these years. It seems to me that'd be a bit harsh on Concordes. :h
