Electrical system discharging WAY too quickly
I’m having an issue with my electrical setup. A few days ago my system began going from a full charge to 50% overnight instead of in it’s usual ~3 days. We have been on the road for a little over 4 mo...
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If you are running group 29 or group 31 batteries, you may find, as others have here, that it's a very poorly designed battery that is high maintenance and a royal pain in the butt to get them equalized to 16.0V at 6 or 7 amps, or the specific gravity up to 1.275 or 1.280, but that has been proven, pretty much time and again, as being the regiment to truly get all the cells equalized. Enough of us have played and tweaked these size jars to know and share our experiences. Have a peek at Landyacht318's thread on his funky 31's and charging procedures.
It takes big voltage, and adjustable charge controllers, to get the job done on these size /shape batteries. Mexicowanderer considers it lousy parameters and bad accumulator design, due to car engineers dictating shape and size of batteries, not golf cart engineers, that actually listen to battery engineers design for size and shape input, due to severe useage of deep cycle batteries. ie get yourself to buy and run some GC2 batteries instead of those car jars in group size 24, 27, 29, or 31.
It takes big voltage, and adjustable charge controllers, to get the job done on these size /shape batteries. Mexicowanderer considers it lousy parameters and bad accumulator design, due to car engineers dictating shape and size of batteries, not golf cart engineers, that actually listen to battery engineers design for size and shape input, due to severe useage of deep cycle batteries. ie get yourself to buy and run some GC2 batteries instead of those car jars in group size 24, 27, 29, or 31.
