Is 24v Charging the Same as 12v Charging?
With 24v charging on a 24v battery is everything the same as 12s except half the amps? Same charging profile, SOC vs time etc? Is 8.3 amps with 24v the same exactly as 16.6 amps on a 12v bank of the...
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wa8yxm wrote:
To summarize
If you are measuring the amp hours capacity of the battery bank then amps = amps no matter what the size....
If you are measuring state o charge of two same capacity (Amp hour) battery banks, then you caharge them at the exact same rate. (Amps) they should charge together, If you charge one at half the rate, it will take twice as long to recover.
If you use WATTS of capacity,, Your math is good.
I think you confused yourself.
Batteries in series have half the capacity of batteries in parallel whether they are 6-volt or 12-volt.
So two 12-volt batteries in series to produce 24 volts have half the capacity (amp hours) of two 12-volt batteries in parallel.
The equalizer is that when you use amps out of the 24-volt setup you use half as much and the rate (amps) you recharge is also half.
So ignoring losses, 200 amp hours of 12-volt battery bank equals 100 amp hours of 24-volt battery bank.
