Charging a Battery Bank
I am planning on upgrading my batteries to 4 6v batteries wired in series and parallel to have a 12v system with plenty of Amp Hours. There is a ton of information on how to wire things up but nothing...
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full_mosey wrote:Joel_T wrote:
So does that 50% + or - (or 100%) increase in weight per cell matter for a real house battery...or not?
I say not at all. The term 'house battery' tends to indicate deep cycle which is the characteristic of sustaining deeper discharges over the life of the battery in terms of SOC%. It is a general fact that thick plates are associated with deep cycle.
A single cell 2.1V battery could easily weigh 100lbs and that tells you nothing about plate thickness.
My 100lb 12V batteries are rated for 260 complete discharges to 0% SOC. I still do not know thick or thin.
HTH;
John
(Maybe thick or thin should be replaced by mass.) How can you say not at all when virtually every (?)comparison gives the win in the "deep cycle" "house" battery race to the heaviest per cell batteries. My 2pc 150lb 12v will do a claimed 500 cycles at 100% DOD....for 260amps. That's roughly 4 times the available amps from my heavier batteries because they probably have at least twice the amps as yours and can put them out twice as many times. (I round numbers to a fault sometimes because things are easier to remember that way.)
