LifePo4 Charge Performance
Thinking seriously about replacing our two GC2's with a pair of 100ah LifePo4's. Hearing a lot of chatter about how lithiums accept a charge much quicker than lead cells. Very familiar with how ou...
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Itinerant1 wrote:
In the big picture getting them charged isn't that big of a deal and who cares if it takes a little longer to charge them. Lifepo4 doesn't need to get full anyways, throw a little solar up on the roof and might even do away with the generator headache unless there is just extremely poor solar conditions.
Exactly, this is where first hand experience matters...When in actual usage, Li does not need to be fully charged - this, due to Li’s often 100% DOD (depth of discharge) rating...Yet, due to Li’s uber low internal charge resistance, even a modest amount of solar harvest is fully optimized. Here where I sit (at about the 40th parallel), genny required for ‘extended period’ (over 3 hr) air conditioning usage only...
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200a/hr Li, ProSine 2.0, 440w solar, 11kbtu ac with soft-start.
