MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Circulation through the glass mat must reach 100% of the plates. Do you really want an E=MC2 answer?
Concorde does not publish gibberish, and frankly, to challenge their data findings in a less than professional setting raises my eyebrows. The process of complete and even ion plate saturation should remain beyond the scope of this message board IMHO
Don't need the science, just to know it is true that you need to follow the specs or else. The question is how bad do things get if you don't follow the specs, and whether you can "live with that" by just buying new batteries as needed if you don't follow the specs.
You only learn that afterwards, ie "the hard way", but how hard is that? I would like to know the real penalty if I always use the correct Vabs and get the AGMs down to 0.5a per 100AH , but ignore the 20% rule.
There is no way to know. So just do what is reasonable in your circumstances, and get new batteries when the time comes, whenever that will be. It only matters if you go off-grid when your batteries are on their last legs. So don't do that.
