Do AGM's charge quicker?
Looking to cut generator time. Have solar but sometimes have little to no sun when dry camping. Read AGM's charge up to 5X faster than flooded. How can that be, converter charger only puts out so mu...
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except for exotic surplus weird size telephone batteries.
AGM are easier and I mean way way WAY easier to know when they are full. At 14.4 volts they simply refuse to take more electricity. Ammeters read zero. They do not corrode terminals, they are highly freeze resistant, and tolerate over discharge better.
They also demand to be charged at a minimum rate. Take an 80 amp hour Group 24 AGM and it, a single battery demands a charge rate of sixteen amps until it gets full enough where it will not accept sixteen amps. Let's extrapolate to a 480 amp hour bank of four AGM golf car batteries. 480/5 = almost 100 amps delivered by a charger or a converter. A person can cheat and abuse anything -- for a price. But high charge rates benefit and minimize fuel use, and generator run time.
Does this help?
NO
QUESTION
except for exotic surplus weird size telephone batteries.
AGM are easier and I mean way way WAY easier to know when they are full. At 14.4 volts they simply refuse to take more electricity. Ammeters read zero. They do not corrode terminals, they are highly freeze resistant, and tolerate over discharge better.
They also demand to be charged at a minimum rate. Take an 80 amp hour Group 24 AGM and it, a single battery demands a charge rate of sixteen amps until it gets full enough where it will not accept sixteen amps. Let's extrapolate to a 480 amp hour bank of four AGM golf car batteries. 480/5 = almost 100 amps delivered by a charger or a converter. A person can cheat and abuse anything -- for a price. But high charge rates benefit and minimize fuel use, and generator run time.
Does this help?
