MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
5% AH charge amperage to 15 volts for top charging. Let amperage continue to raise voltage to 16.0 for equalization. A 31 makes for a poor excuse of a cyclable battery. Poor quality batteries eat power like peanuts. If you buy a good quality battery you will be pleased when you experience the Charge Efficiency Ratio. High voltage regular charging poisons the negative plates. Save fifty dollars on a golf car battery and spend two hundred more dollars fighting it generator charging over it's off grid lifetime. Good battery management is cheapskate battery management.
It wasn't quite that bad... the battery was free, the 150W solar panel was $120 new. So what ever was given up by the sun was pretty much free. Still have the 150w panel, and rumor has it AGM's don't like too much solar charging, unless supplemented with some serious high amperage deep cycle amps sucking recharging genny time, from time to time, to shake things up. I think I am going to just store this AGM in the garage at home, and take with to the TT when going on a trip.
