Charging the Lifelines questions
As you all know, anything more than clipping the auto charger onto a battery is well above my pay grade, so I have some questions. For the regular charge before the conditioning charge, the Lifelin...
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MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
I wrote CLEARLY five or so years ago on this forum MANAGING A HEAVILY CYCLED SEALED BATTERY IS NOT EASY BECAUSE ACCESS TO THE CHEMISTRY IS DENIED.
When in doubt download the LIFELINE PDF and perform the full-scale capacity test.
The capacity test is the SOLE POLYGRAPH of VRB. Valve regulated meaning sealed Calcium Calcium, Gel or Absorbed glass mat batteries.
NINER did you read the Lifeline AGM manual. It defines FULL CHARGE perfectly.
CHARGE AT ECOMMENDED BULK CHARGE VOLTAGE UNTIL CHARGING AMPERAGE DECREASES TO ONE HALF PERCENT OF BATTERY ONE OR A MILLION BATTERIES, AMPS CHARGE RATE APPEARS
With a 150 ampere hour @ 20 hour rate battery droops to one half of one percent, the battery is charged. One full percent is one point five amperes. So half of that is .75 amperes or three quarters of an amp. For a 150-amp hour AGM battery to repeat.
Not only did I read it, I printed it out. What Lifeline does vs what DEKA does, battery wise, alloy wise, and specific battery wise, is probably 2 different things. I've no idea what these industrial grade batteries price out at, or cost out at, but I do know Lifeline builds to Mil spec, and Mil spec is darn expensive.
