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rjsurfer
Explorer
Nov 22, 2015

Will laser heat sensor find inadequate battery cables?

Just curious if I can use one of those heat gun devices to detect inadequately sized battery cables and connection points in my solar system? I'm only getting 15 minutes of run time on my 1200watt ...
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pianotuna
Nomad III
Nov 24, 2015
Hi,

It is not so much the higher voltage of a 12 volt jar. It is that there are, for the same amp-hour capacity, twice as many cells, so the load per cell is 50% of what it is with 6 volt jars.


2oldman wrote:
15 minutes of MW is going to be a struggle even with 6 batteries. Higher voltage may help, but that's still a whopping load.

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