Switch to LIFePO4?
I have a trio of Rolls Surrette FS210 wet cell batteries that give me about 315 AH of usable capacity. My big concern is weight, the total is 400 lbs in my from compartment of the 5er, and I think tha...
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So here's an interesting 'problem'. It's been stated (by battery mfg) that I should not keep my LIFePO4's at fully charged state (100%) for an extended period of time, better to keep them at 50-80% SOC. Once I'm back camping (normally boondocking), I guess I can turn off the solar the day before and run the microwave until I draw them down. For right now while I'm still building the system, I am hooking up each battery individually to my old 2000W inverter. I ran an incandescent light for a few hrs but it did not appreciably drop my SOC (good news I guess?) - any creative ideas on what to run to draw down as efficiently as possible to 80% (will need to do it 4 times, mind) without exceeding 100A (which is the draw limit/battery until I hook them all up) - each battery is 100 AH.
