Solar and battery help
Good Morning. I am hoping someone can provide a simple answer or 4 for me. I just read a post on the TC forum about flexible, light weight 100 watt solar panels and love the look of this, I have a Nor...
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red31 wrote:
I believe one can multiple the hours of discharge at a certain load to get capacity at that load.
86 ah @ a 5A load, 72 ah @ 15A load
http://www.interstatebatteries.com/m/category/marine/deepcycle
However, we don't run the load to battery death, we stop short of that and the battery recovers to be able to run more, so the capacity figure for the load in such tables is lower than you get in real life.
RVers run a mix of high and low amp loads all day, so the battery capacity rated at the 20hr rate is about right for a two-battery bank with about 11a as the rate in many cases.
If the RVer averages less than the 20hr rate, then his bank capacity is more than it is rated for thanks to Mr Peukert.
