SLI battery maintenance
Most of the battery discussion that takes place here obviously tends to focus on deep cycle, AGM, 6v, etc. I've learned a ton over the years and feel fairly knowledgeable when it comes to my house bat...
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pianotuna wrote:
Brulaz,
I no longer know where I got the information originally. But I was reassured when Mex came along and said 5 amps per 100 amp-hours of storage for equalization/desulfation. It may have been from my Blue Sky solar charge controller manual.
One does need to monitor the temperature of the battery and keep it under control.
For my 215 Ah bank, 5% would be 10.75A.
I just equalized yesterday, it started at about 10A and went down to about 5A after an hour or so, and stayed there until I pulled the plug.
Just looked at the US Battery charging docs again. They don't mention Amps but do have a graph showing current declining during equalization down to 3% of C/20 (6.5A for my bank).
