Deep cycle or starter battery charging issues
I recenty moved from a class B to a small fiver. My old van had one deep cycle battery and I installed an isolator. This set up was good for several nights of light usage before I had to run the van t...
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If you double the batteries you can pump in a given number of amp hours more quickly yes. You cannot reach a given state of charge more quickly. The batteries will not live as long a life if you do not recharge them up near full pretty regularly and not too long after discharging them.
Yes starting or hybrid deep cycle/ starting batteries can charge and discharge more quickly than true deep cycle. They have a lot more surface area per amp hour that they can hold. AGM even more so.
Data from Trojan and Interstate would seem to indicate that some hybrid marine type batteries can safely discharge at c/1 rather than c/3 or c/5. I hate this terminology since the units are not correct using dimensional analysis, but that seems to be the industry standard. It should really be "C/x hours" to get an amperage, not "C/x" which yields an answer in amp hours, not amps.
Jim
Yes starting or hybrid deep cycle/ starting batteries can charge and discharge more quickly than true deep cycle. They have a lot more surface area per amp hour that they can hold. AGM even more so.
Data from Trojan and Interstate would seem to indicate that some hybrid marine type batteries can safely discharge at c/1 rather than c/3 or c/5. I hate this terminology since the units are not correct using dimensional analysis, but that seems to be the industry standard. It should really be "C/x hours" to get an amperage, not "C/x" which yields an answer in amp hours, not amps.
Jim
