Does DEKA make a good UPS battery?
I took a trip yesterday down near San Diego, it was twofold. One was to replace my free Trojan T-1275 that was a golf cart reject already when I got it with a pig of a 105# UPS 145ah AGM battery from ...
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MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
You plan on ambushing your new battery with a Megawatt Gang? Ganged Megawatts?
Not sure quite yet what I may modify. Seems certain though, that AGM needs to be topped off fully, as near 100% as possible, daily, and needs some serious heavy duty amperage every now and then to fill the charge banks up fully.
If I am using 40 AH out of 175AH at 20 hr rating, then thats 75 to 80 SOC when in use. Shop claims these have never been deeply discharged, and manuals claim a couple of deep discharges when new are in order to develop full capacity. Makes me think I need to do a trip pronto and do at least a couple of 50% SOC cycles. Problem is I don't know what kind of voltage under no load a 50% SOC is. I would need to replace 80 to 90 amps, that's probably 1.5 hours on the generator first thing in the morning at 45 amps back in, and the solar panel at 14.4V the rest of the day, at 8.5 Amps.
Also need to see how the Touareg does recharging this battery while driving in route.
