Is killing batteries three times too much?
I use a set of 6V golf cart batteries from Costco. The pair that is in my rig now is two years old and they only last a couple of nights before the low voltage alarm on my CPAP starts sounding. When t...
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RJsfishin wrote:
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My T-1275s' cells are all over the map, can't get them equalized with my equipment. Been like that for a year now and the batts work great despite the funny SGs.
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I just keep using mine the way they are, and don't worry too much about it
But like your T-1275's mine are all over the map, a 10 to 20 point spread on the weak sister and the Top Gun. They work fine, for camping,
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What have I been tryin to tell you guys !
Drop kick your hydro, pretend it never existed, get some sleep tonite !
If the batts are performing to satisfaction, that's great.(don't need a hydro to tell you that)
If their not, you buy new ones.
Hard for you's to believe, but there is more to life than your batts !
I have to agree with you RJ. Some people here spend way too much time screwing around with their batteries.
I go by advice from a fellow chemist/pharmacist from the past. His favorite saying was: "If it isn't broke, don't fix it".
Any unnecessary cycling of batteries not showing any real loss of capacity is just shortening the overall life of the batteries. I can understand newcomers learning how to care for batteries needing to follow the correct protocol, but we old-timers with plenty of experience under our belts can easily sense when it's time to do more serious checking on our batteries.
