My Screwy 31
First off let me say I am not stressing over this. It's just a battery, it is only money, it is meeting my overnight needs, but it is displaying strange behavior, and I am curious as to why. So th...
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landyacht318 wrote:
I'm pretty close to the ocean, so unless we have an easterly flow, like last week, it is pretty rare to see more than 85f in these parts.
I also have 2 layers of reflectix wrapped around the battery and it is sitting on a layer too, so perhaps that dense mass does not really swing with ambient temps all that much.
I might just top the cells up, do an EQ and record that baseline, and figure when the electrolyte levels drop to the current level, I can expect 1.290 and higher.
I'll be all grumpy again at seeing 12.0 or less, when I'm used to seeing 12.2 at a certain depletion level, but oh well. It is not as if anything I am running has issues with 12.0, and perhaps the lower morning starting voltage makes my MPPT controller a Smidge more efficient for a while.
The hotter the temperature, the more chemical reaction between the plates and the H2SO4, hence the higher the voltage in the summer time. In the winter time, you might want to keep your electrolyte lower and your SG higher.
