Switching from 12 volt to 6 volt batteries
After our third time out dry camping with our new travel trailer, we started running into battery bank issues. Our first two times out, we had no issues at all with running down our battery bank overn...
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GravelRider wrote:
But I do believe you can pretty safely discharge the 6 volts down to 20%, right?
You can cycle to 20% or you can have many more cycles by only using 50%. By many more I mean four times as many cycles.
If you want to cycle to 20% the only choices are SiO2 chemistry or LI.
My next bank will be SiO2 because I need to survive -40 and they are currently less than 50% of the cost of LI.
Neither SiO2 nor LI require getting to 100% state of charge, so they are ideal for use with solar.
