Higher Absorption Voltage, Less Top Charging
Mex has mentioned this a few times. I have some real life experience of that now I have the right equipment to see it. This would relate to the battery blurb advice on doing overcharges every so oft...
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All smiles here BFL. Isn't it fun discovering what free-lance charging control can accomplish? Play conductor and the orchestra responds.
What a lot of people fail to see is 99% of what is discussed here is only necessary one or two times to tweak. Then it becomes automatic. I spend TEN SECONDS A DAY twisting the dial of an Intermatic timer. Times 30 = 300 seconds a month. Times 12. 3,600 seconds. An hour per YEAR. Time to Top Charge? I twist the timer 20 minutes additional time.
On the way back from the gen shed, I pick a cantaloupe, papaya, some mangoes and bananas for a fruit salad breakfast. A hook on my now empty coffee cup allows me to hang it on my belt and use my one hand and a bag.
Then I go inside, swallow salt tablets and shower off all the sweat generated by this rigorous trial-by-fire physical and calculus grade mental overload.
Of course there are battery watering days, and the ubiquitous weak sister cell dipping days. I promise the kids I will return by sunset. They giggle and follow me. But are prohibited from entering the shed.
Doing things the right way makes farce the thought that correct battery management is either complicated or time consuming. It is neither. If I need to recharge, I start the generator and a spare few minutes later voltage is at 29.4
Even the generator is on a timer. I know from negative amp hours how much gen run time returns the batteries to 98-102% CEF or 108-114& actual. Yawn.
What a lot of people fail to see is 99% of what is discussed here is only necessary one or two times to tweak. Then it becomes automatic. I spend TEN SECONDS A DAY twisting the dial of an Intermatic timer. Times 30 = 300 seconds a month. Times 12. 3,600 seconds. An hour per YEAR. Time to Top Charge? I twist the timer 20 minutes additional time.
On the way back from the gen shed, I pick a cantaloupe, papaya, some mangoes and bananas for a fruit salad breakfast. A hook on my now empty coffee cup allows me to hang it on my belt and use my one hand and a bag.
Then I go inside, swallow salt tablets and shower off all the sweat generated by this rigorous trial-by-fire physical and calculus grade mental overload.
Of course there are battery watering days, and the ubiquitous weak sister cell dipping days. I promise the kids I will return by sunset. They giggle and follow me. But are prohibited from entering the shed.
Doing things the right way makes farce the thought that correct battery management is either complicated or time consuming. It is neither. If I need to recharge, I start the generator and a spare few minutes later voltage is at 29.4
Even the generator is on a timer. I know from negative amp hours how much gen run time returns the batteries to 98-102% CEF or 108-114& actual. Yawn.
