2oldman wrote:
full_mosey wrote:
You cannot charge that with a 24V charger without having problems. Any draws from the 12V tap will drop the SG of that string's cells.
To any significant amount that will kill the project?
Batteries are never exactly the same SG. Can you be a bit more specific?
This is the same situation you have when any cell of a battery is lower than the rest. You need to equalize the cells, but in order to do this, you apply an overcharge to the already charged cells. Overcharging eats the positive plates, and is a destructive
recovery procedure. A battery with a chronic lagging SG cell is a problem.
Technically, you would have a 24V battery. A battery is a collection of cells.
To deliberately draw down individual cells in a bank is just wrong. As someone else already mentioned, you could devise some kind of battery switching scheme to try to keep the batteries SG in balance. If you enjoy checking SG as a hobby then go for it.
But, as you already said, you don't understand this stuff. :)
HTH;
John