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MEXICOWANDERER
May 22, 2014Explorer
BFL 13, with my 24 Volt Rolls bank, if I apply 560 amperes at 28 volts, the voltage jump from sat 24.1 to 28.0 volts instantaneously.
MAXIMUM CHARGE ACCEPTANCE at whatever charging voltage is how this is described, termed and dealt with.
The issue pencils out this way (This is where MBA trumps MEE)
Generator Charging. Not line charging or unlimited solar charging where you keep adding panels until the batteries reach 100% charge every day...
Generator charging. You pay for the generator. You pay for the maintenance, you pay for fuel, you pay to go get fuel. You pay in time spent to re-fuel. You pay in tranquility lost in listening to the generator and having to pay attention to it.
Which is going to cost less $$$$$ + sanity?
Charging at maximum charge acceptance or charging by a c10 or c20 rate?
If I wrote it once, I wrote it 30 times on this forum. I REFUSE to pay 100 dollars pampering the battery with c10 lollypops fuel to save 15 dollars in battery life. Some of you confuse the actual fuel poured into the gas tank and forget about the 20 dollars in gasoline your car uses to go purchase more gasoline. I have better things to do with my spare time.
C10 rate adds a varying amount of lifespan over charging at maximum acceptance rate. Somewhere between 108% to 115%. Screwing around at a campsite with a C10 rate and ending up continuously undercharging the battery destructs the battery far faster than charging at maximum acceptance rate.
C10 charging is IDEAL for battery banks that get discharged to a correct percentage minimum, then have all the time in the world to recharge. To hell with ten percent, recharge at five percent if you have the time.
Some of you laugh at paying several thousands of dollars for a generator.
It's started. Then it's duty is like paying a teenager thirty dollars a hour to play video games, while it tilts a refrigerator and empties it into it's mouth every four hours.
When I start my 4 cylinder Kubota, it's allowed to warm up one minute, then UGHHHHH, it grunts hard. The 300 MCM charge lead wires actually JUMP an inch or two when power is first applied.
The battery bank has been able to vote for several years now. At 22 years in age, three of the cells are getting cloudy.
But to me, charging is not some sort of game...
"Pinchygiggle" now THAT'S a game (hehehe)
MAXIMUM CHARGE ACCEPTANCE at whatever charging voltage is how this is described, termed and dealt with.
The issue pencils out this way (This is where MBA trumps MEE)
Generator Charging. Not line charging or unlimited solar charging where you keep adding panels until the batteries reach 100% charge every day...
Generator charging. You pay for the generator. You pay for the maintenance, you pay for fuel, you pay to go get fuel. You pay in time spent to re-fuel. You pay in tranquility lost in listening to the generator and having to pay attention to it.
Which is going to cost less $$$$$ + sanity?
Charging at maximum charge acceptance or charging by a c10 or c20 rate?
If I wrote it once, I wrote it 30 times on this forum. I REFUSE to pay 100 dollars pampering the battery with c10 lollypops fuel to save 15 dollars in battery life. Some of you confuse the actual fuel poured into the gas tank and forget about the 20 dollars in gasoline your car uses to go purchase more gasoline. I have better things to do with my spare time.
C10 rate adds a varying amount of lifespan over charging at maximum acceptance rate. Somewhere between 108% to 115%. Screwing around at a campsite with a C10 rate and ending up continuously undercharging the battery destructs the battery far faster than charging at maximum acceptance rate.
C10 charging is IDEAL for battery banks that get discharged to a correct percentage minimum, then have all the time in the world to recharge. To hell with ten percent, recharge at five percent if you have the time.
Some of you laugh at paying several thousands of dollars for a generator.
It's started. Then it's duty is like paying a teenager thirty dollars a hour to play video games, while it tilts a refrigerator and empties it into it's mouth every four hours.
When I start my 4 cylinder Kubota, it's allowed to warm up one minute, then UGHHHHH, it grunts hard. The 300 MCM charge lead wires actually JUMP an inch or two when power is first applied.
The battery bank has been able to vote for several years now. At 22 years in age, three of the cells are getting cloudy.
But to me, charging is not some sort of game...
"Pinchygiggle" now THAT'S a game (hehehe)
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