Split battery bank to multiple locations?
I can get 2 6V golf cart batteries on my tongue in the stock location. If I want to double that, I'm pretty limited (nash 22H 22' TT). One of the options I was wondering about was leaving the exi...
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Chilly,
This is a question I dealt with a lot while I was still doing boat work. (Before the Depression) Lead/Acid battery simply do not play nicely together. There is no way to change that. They could have been together went they came off the assembly line, and they would soon be too different to behave well in parallel.
You can try to match the impedance to of the charging circuit, but as soon as you go the frame for a ground that is lost. Even if you completely match the charging circuits (I have tried) , you will never get the two banks to agree on what they should be doing. Just a few degrees of temperature difference will change the admittance of the banks.
Best Bet: Get a marine battery switch and keep your brain in gear. When trying to recover both banks, you can bulk charge with the switch at "Both" and you can run with there also, but you can't finish charge both at the same time and never store with both on.
And remember, copper is your friend and you only have to buy it once.
Matt
This is a question I dealt with a lot while I was still doing boat work. (Before the Depression) Lead/Acid battery simply do not play nicely together. There is no way to change that. They could have been together went they came off the assembly line, and they would soon be too different to behave well in parallel.
You can try to match the impedance to of the charging circuit, but as soon as you go the frame for a ground that is lost. Even if you completely match the charging circuits (I have tried) , you will never get the two banks to agree on what they should be doing. Just a few degrees of temperature difference will change the admittance of the banks.
Best Bet: Get a marine battery switch and keep your brain in gear. When trying to recover both banks, you can bulk charge with the switch at "Both" and you can run with there also, but you can't finish charge both at the same time and never store with both on.
And remember, copper is your friend and you only have to buy it once.
Matt
