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ktmrfs
Feb 25, 2013Explorer II
MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Number of cycles rendered and survivability denote a "Deep Cycle" accumulator.
Should be regulated..and expressed on a label as a number (# of cycles)
Number of discharge cycles expected to 50% state of charge while rendering 60% of total amp hour capacity.
Not a guarantee. Merely a test.
yup, would be nice. A few do show number of expected cycles vs. depth of discharge, but AFAIK none define what "end of life" capacity they used in the test.
Interestingly Trojan indicates that the deep discharge batteries need 50-100 cycles to reach max capacity. But again, they don't define how far to cycle them down each time. Nor do they say how much capacity is increased during the intial cycles.
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