PD or Iota for my upgrade?
I'm thinking about a converter and battery upgrade. The batteries will be wet cell lead acid 6 volt Possible T-105s or the 230AH, EGC2 from Sam's club. I'll probably go for four. (Does nayone have...
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"We only needed to charge every 3 days or so, and I seldom went much below 80% - never below 75%."
This is not compatible with the charger running for an hour at 80 amps before tapering on four 6s. Not possible.
You had to be down to more like 60% SOC.
Seeing from my graphs of this that at 80a tapering would start at about 80% (ie at 368AH) going back an hour (80AH) start would have been at 288AH which is 288/460 = 63% SOC.
Your "morning voltage" (light load before making coffee etc--and before "solar wake-up" jacks up the voltage) would have been 12.2/12.3 which would have been another indicator that true SOC before the recharge was near 60%.
I like to compare my "morning voltage" every day with the AH used up as shown on the Trimetric to see if they are both telling the same story for estimated SOC.
If you were indeed running 60-90s, then now is the time to do some equalizing /overcharging to get the batteries back to "baseline, as new SG" or they will never recover to 460AH ready for the next trip.
This is not compatible with the charger running for an hour at 80 amps before tapering on four 6s. Not possible.
You had to be down to more like 60% SOC.
Seeing from my graphs of this that at 80a tapering would start at about 80% (ie at 368AH) going back an hour (80AH) start would have been at 288AH which is 288/460 = 63% SOC.
Your "morning voltage" (light load before making coffee etc--and before "solar wake-up" jacks up the voltage) would have been 12.2/12.3 which would have been another indicator that true SOC before the recharge was near 60%.
I like to compare my "morning voltage" every day with the AH used up as shown on the Trimetric to see if they are both telling the same story for estimated SOC.
If you were indeed running 60-90s, then now is the time to do some equalizing /overcharging to get the batteries back to "baseline, as new SG" or they will never recover to 460AH ready for the next trip.
