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BFL13
Explorer II
Jun 25, 2013

Does Adding Water to the Batts Make You a Bad Person?

I keep reading how it is a virtue not to have to add water to the batts because you bought the right sort of battery charger etc etc. I don't get it. My 6s are on solar and the controller has th...
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12thgenusa
Explorer
Jun 26, 2013
pianotuna wrote:
Hi smk,

Solar can not do a saturation charge unless there are two battery banks. (so one bank can be used to power a charger for the other bank, for 14 to 16 hours)

Solar may alleviate the need for that technique--but sometimes batteries just need a long "drink" of shore power.

Explain further about saturation charge. What is it? When and why do you do it? How is it different from Absorption or Float charge? Or is it just an extended float? Every link I look at ends up talking about Equalization.

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