How do L16's fare under heavy inverter loads?
I realize that I'm probably the only one with these batts here but maybe someone has some in an off-grid home and are familiar with how they run under heavy load? 6V seem to exhibit more voltage drop ...
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I'm going to take a SWAG that the a pair L-16's are going to be similar to a bank of four T-125's for high current load drop. My experience is that while two T-125's will handle 80A or so to 75%SOC before tripping the low voltage, 4 T-125's do so down to about 50% SOC. Still they are grunting and groaning more than a pair of good 12V and maybe even more than a single good 12V even with it limited to 75-80A. 150A load Uggg....
And we tend to run such loads for 5 minutes or less.
But then, Menna, don't you have 4 L-16's?? Thats a bank of 8 GC. Seems like that might get you into the territory of a pair of decent 12V for high current draw voltage drop. So for a 150A load, your pulling 75A from each L-16 bank. That's comparable to 35ish A from a bank of T-125's which doesn't give the T-125's much of a fit.
Since we only very occasionally draw that load and only for a few minutes when DW gets desperate for the microwave the 4 GC are ok. And even then my microwave is a true variable power, so I set it for only about 800VA draw, not the typical 1500VA or so of a microwave at full power.
If your planning on trying to run the microwave etc. for 15, 30 minutes or longer..... well, humm..... don't have a clue as to what effect it will have on L-16's.
But this is sure a limitation and tradeoff between GC and many good 12V.
And we tend to run such loads for 5 minutes or less.
But then, Menna, don't you have 4 L-16's?? Thats a bank of 8 GC. Seems like that might get you into the territory of a pair of decent 12V for high current draw voltage drop. So for a 150A load, your pulling 75A from each L-16 bank. That's comparable to 35ish A from a bank of T-125's which doesn't give the T-125's much of a fit.
Since we only very occasionally draw that load and only for a few minutes when DW gets desperate for the microwave the 4 GC are ok. And even then my microwave is a true variable power, so I set it for only about 800VA draw, not the typical 1500VA or so of a microwave at full power.
If your planning on trying to run the microwave etc. for 15, 30 minutes or longer..... well, humm..... don't have a clue as to what effect it will have on L-16's.
But this is sure a limitation and tradeoff between GC and many good 12V.
