Charging Rate of Honda 2000
Boon-docking. Charging 2 six volt batteries in series....how long should the generator run to bring up batteries one volt? I typically run it in "ECO" mode out of consideration for others. Thanks for...
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Hi SoundGuy,
I prefer 12 volt jars--but not for the reason of redundancy.
The reason one of the OP's six volt jars failed is because they were repeatedly deep cycled, and rarely brought to 100% state of charge. One happened to measure ok and the other did not. But we don't know what testing was done. I suspect that if he had treated the 12 volt jars the same as the 6 volt, that the results might be the ame--one battery dead and the other "passing" (probably by the skin of its skinny skin teeth).
The Group 31 is a starved acid format. 31's are not forgiving of errors. I'd lean towards group 29 myself.
I prefer 12 volt jars--but not for the reason of redundancy.
The reason one of the OP's six volt jars failed is because they were repeatedly deep cycled, and rarely brought to 100% state of charge. One happened to measure ok and the other did not. But we don't know what testing was done. I suspect that if he had treated the 12 volt jars the same as the 6 volt, that the results might be the ame--one battery dead and the other "passing" (probably by the skin of its skinny skin teeth).
The Group 31 is a starved acid format. 31's are not forgiving of errors. I'd lean towards group 29 myself.
SoundGuy wrote:
Personally, I'd rather not be left with one live and one dead 6 volt so when I upgrade this spring from my existing single G27 I plan to do so with a pair of 12 volt G31s that together will offer similar capacity to a pair of 6 volt GC-2s but which can each power the trailer on their own should I so choose.
