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pianotuna
Sep 05, 2013Nomad III
Hi,
TripLite is a high quality MSW inverter.
Forget the induction cook top--they require pure sine wave.
I would buy one dimable LED 120 volt bulb and try it.
115 minutes is the "reserve capacity". There is an approximate formula for conversion to amp-hours at the 20 hour rate. Check the wobbly wide web.
A good guess may be 200 amp-hours per battery. Since the system is 24 volts that gives you 400 amp-hours X 24 v = 9600 watts. Of which you can use 4800 safely.
In your shoes I'd start by fully charging each individual battery, then equalize and finally desulphate.
Since there are 8 you could keep four "in service" while treating the other four one at a time. The catch will be time as desulphating can take over 24 hours per jar.
In any event, get solar.
TripLite is a high quality MSW inverter.
Forget the induction cook top--they require pure sine wave.
I would buy one dimable LED 120 volt bulb and try it.
115 minutes is the "reserve capacity". There is an approximate formula for conversion to amp-hours at the 20 hour rate. Check the wobbly wide web.
A good guess may be 200 amp-hours per battery. Since the system is 24 volts that gives you 400 amp-hours X 24 v = 9600 watts. Of which you can use 4800 safely.
In your shoes I'd start by fully charging each individual battery, then equalize and finally desulphate.
Since there are 8 you could keep four "in service" while treating the other four one at a time. The catch will be time as desulphating can take over 24 hours per jar.
In any event, get solar.
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