Solar Requirements - Confirmation
I'm taking a 3 month mountain biking trip through British Columbia this summer. Most of the time will be spent camping at National/Provincial parks without access to electric. When I really break it d...
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Joel_T wrote:
I'm meandering a bit but....I continually read that thick plate 6v batts are by design able to handle deeper 50% (?) discharges but that the thinner plates of almost all 12v batts are more prone to "damage" by discharges beyond 10 or 20%.
And 6 volt deep cycle batteries, with a higher internal resistance, also tend to suffer greater voltage drop under heavy load than do 12 volts. For those of us who don't deep cycle often but do power an inverter voltage drop is a critical issue, enough that we may prefer a 12 volt over a set of 6 volts. This choice between 6 and 12 volts jugs is not as simple as it may seem, no more than AGMs are necessarily always "better" than good 'ol flooded which offer advantages of their own and continue to exist for good reason. ;)
