FIVE AMP VOLTAGE REGULAR TO-220's or TO-5's ?
some of my accessories are rated higher than 3.0 amps for a standard adjustable regulator. Rather than buy a plate the size of two packages of cigarettes one stacked atop another is there a regulator ...
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I'm running into a situation where the hotter than hell temperatures here make fixed voltage charging of -expensive- lithium ion batteries and nickel metal hydride batteries iffy. I would like to back the voltage off 2-3%
Also, those little monsters are not all of like construction. Is there a website that has charts for these cells, and recommendations for temperature compensation?
The issue is power outages, running a 4024 inverter just to charge batteries, and finding a sixty dollar lithium battery (tool) that lasts only a year with perhaps ten hours of use on it. I am referring to new DeWalt stuff so quality is not an issue. It's either back the maintenance voltage down or use a cycle timer. It's be nice to find an easy to program, inexpensive cycle timer.
Some of my NiMH stuff will self-discharge to zero in a month or two. Crappy circuit design allows the float voltage circuit to fail and even though a charge indicator LED glows green, the battery is deader than a stick. The damned thing needs to have it's switch recycled daily. Aghhhh!
With low loads, the Trace is giving me efficiency somewhere in the high seventies - stupid to use 80% of battery wattage energy to maintain an inverter circuit. Hence all these DC to DC questions. Summer outages are due to storms as in overcast skies, so battery recharging has to be done via generator, four dollar a gallon gasoline or diesel and a 62 mile round trip to go get it. I gotta get 600 - 800 watts worth of panels up on the roof, but summer thunderstorms, tropical storms, hurricanes can cut panel output 95% for days on end.
Also, those little monsters are not all of like construction. Is there a website that has charts for these cells, and recommendations for temperature compensation?
The issue is power outages, running a 4024 inverter just to charge batteries, and finding a sixty dollar lithium battery (tool) that lasts only a year with perhaps ten hours of use on it. I am referring to new DeWalt stuff so quality is not an issue. It's either back the maintenance voltage down or use a cycle timer. It's be nice to find an easy to program, inexpensive cycle timer.
Some of my NiMH stuff will self-discharge to zero in a month or two. Crappy circuit design allows the float voltage circuit to fail and even though a charge indicator LED glows green, the battery is deader than a stick. The damned thing needs to have it's switch recycled daily. Aghhhh!
With low loads, the Trace is giving me efficiency somewhere in the high seventies - stupid to use 80% of battery wattage energy to maintain an inverter circuit. Hence all these DC to DC questions. Summer outages are due to storms as in overcast skies, so battery recharging has to be done via generator, four dollar a gallon gasoline or diesel and a 62 mile round trip to go get it. I gotta get 600 - 800 watts worth of panels up on the roof, but summer thunderstorms, tropical storms, hurricanes can cut panel output 95% for days on end.
