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:
Hokay.
A HAM enthusiast (these guys are sharp)...
Recommends paralleling all three + and all three - terminals on these power supplies.
His rationale is that all three are feed by individual feeble circuit board traces under the circuit board. Says there is too much voltage drop and too much heat on a single fully circuit trace.
The "fix" is easy. It makes sense, and this HAMster taught me something.
Bridge the connections externally,
Just bridge them all at the terminal block /buss both + and - sides, as shown in the pic. Spreads the amp load out over all 3 circuit traces, per side.
