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:
Once my lifeline gets to 14.45, .5 amperes is only minutes away. Oh well, ya can't winnem all,,,
It took about 3.5 hours for my 150 AH Deka to get down to .75AH, at 14.4V at 90F, with only 8 amps taken out of it... you been smoking or drinking, or does your timer need to be recertified?
Edit, jeez that raised my blood pressure this morning, being trolled by the master while on the Columbia River in Clarkston, WA, because I've been out and on the road 8 days now, and I know it's time to EQ that big lunk of battery sitting on the trailer, fully. I haven't noticed any loss of performance, but it's just due to be done, good procedure. 8.8 Amps from the solar panel with the sun up at 7 has the meter showing 14.4V, but it's still showing a 3.3 Amp take rate, even late in the day, while the system has about an amp of parasitic drag hourly.
All the clouds and rain haven't helped here near the Big Hole River by Butte, MT this whole past week. Fish were head down the whole time.
