More Solar for "Us"
Ok, I went off.the deep end? Bought 3 used 37watt uni-solar panels and a blue sky 2000e controller for the hefty price of $400, They were being listed as 75w panels, they are not The tested open...
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AFAIK, charging is desulfating by definition. Perhaps if this gizmo is doing some pulse desulphating at the same time as a recharge it would speed things up. Anyway, I was only thinking of the gizmo desulfating after the solar had got them to full and it was early enough in the day that the solar was still keeping the batteries at a higher voltage than any rig draws were pulling the voltage down.
I think Don is right that there is a combination of good things Mr Wiz is doing that is saving him from the progressive loss thing I get doing successive 50-90s.
When I first reported on that, Don mentioned a link to a lab test somebody was running comparing battery performance, where they had to re-plan the tests because they were not fully recharging between each test and they found the battery capacity was shrinking on them each time and making their test invalid for comparisons of each run.
The only cure I can figure is to recharge to full after each cycle. IMO Mr Wiz is probably getting some progressive loss but does not measure for it and has lots of capacity wrt daily usage and then does a full charge often enough (I have seen recent advice to go to full every four cycles--this is a change from the old advice to do that at least once a month while doing 50-80s-- then it was every two weeks--it keeps getting shorter how often to do it --maybe people are starting to notice what is going on)
No way to know really. Mr Wiz has a routine that is working so he doesn't have to bother about it.
I think Don is right that there is a combination of good things Mr Wiz is doing that is saving him from the progressive loss thing I get doing successive 50-90s.
When I first reported on that, Don mentioned a link to a lab test somebody was running comparing battery performance, where they had to re-plan the tests because they were not fully recharging between each test and they found the battery capacity was shrinking on them each time and making their test invalid for comparisons of each run.
The only cure I can figure is to recharge to full after each cycle. IMO Mr Wiz is probably getting some progressive loss but does not measure for it and has lots of capacity wrt daily usage and then does a full charge often enough (I have seen recent advice to go to full every four cycles--this is a change from the old advice to do that at least once a month while doing 50-80s-- then it was every two weeks--it keeps getting shorter how often to do it --maybe people are starting to notice what is going on)
No way to know really. Mr Wiz has a routine that is working so he doesn't have to bother about it.
