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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Steve,
I was talking about zero volts. Not a "capacity" discharge.
Capacity discharge is a "moveable feast". If you set capacity at 20% of the total then you get a whole bunch more "cycles".
The other factor is "how much remains".
The industry considers batteries "done" when they only produce 80% of their usable amp-hours.
In my case, with telecom jars, "usable" capacity is 278 amp-hours and 80% still allows me 222 amp-hours. That's more than most RV's come from the dealers with.
The reason I want a high capacity bank is to be able to run an O2 concentrator overnight. I refuse to run a generator while sleeping. Assuming I have only 2.67 Kwh--I can't come close to running the concentrator all night.
That turns me into a power pole princess.
BTW the O2 is not for me--but for my partner.
I was talking about zero volts. Not a "capacity" discharge.
Capacity discharge is a "moveable feast". If you set capacity at 20% of the total then you get a whole bunch more "cycles".
The other factor is "how much remains".
The industry considers batteries "done" when they only produce 80% of their usable amp-hours.
In my case, with telecom jars, "usable" capacity is 278 amp-hours and 80% still allows me 222 amp-hours. That's more than most RV's come from the dealers with.
The reason I want a high capacity bank is to be able to run an O2 concentrator overnight. I refuse to run a generator while sleeping. Assuming I have only 2.67 Kwh--I can't come close to running the concentrator all night.
That turns me into a power pole princess.
BTW the O2 is not for me--but for my partner.
