MEGAWATT 60-AMP INTRODUCTION
To be available starting the last week in January. $110.00
Forum Discussion
Y'all in the hot weather areas need to convert your batteries electrolyte to "Tropical Blend" during the hot months. ie, top the electrolyte off good and high with distilled water and keep it up there near the upper limits during the warmer months to dilute the SG a bit and save the lead/antimony plates.
Whenever it's hot, you have to consume more water. Why would batteries be any different?
The more I think about that problematic T-1275 and top charging and needing 15.0V to get it top charged, slowly, the more I realize that a balanced 1 watt to 1 amp hour of battery ratio for my solar panel, battery, and an adjustable Voltage charge controller provide exactly what the battery prefers and needs, a slow steady charge, not a blast at 30 amps from my Mega Watt and generator.
But sometimes, when the sun don't shine, you gotta do what you gotta do. Electricity at night stored in the jars is more important than life of battery being a minute bit of months or days longer. Not too important in the grand scheme of things, unless pan handling or on food stamps, me thinks, for the majority of us.
Whenever it's hot, you have to consume more water. Why would batteries be any different?
The more I think about that problematic T-1275 and top charging and needing 15.0V to get it top charged, slowly, the more I realize that a balanced 1 watt to 1 amp hour of battery ratio for my solar panel, battery, and an adjustable Voltage charge controller provide exactly what the battery prefers and needs, a slow steady charge, not a blast at 30 amps from my Mega Watt and generator.
But sometimes, when the sun don't shine, you gotta do what you gotta do. Electricity at night stored in the jars is more important than life of battery being a minute bit of months or days longer. Not too important in the grand scheme of things, unless pan handling or on food stamps, me thinks, for the majority of us.
