Lithium Battery Question
I am thinking about converting my 2020 lance to Lithium batteries. I want to do it as inexpensively as possible. (Battle Born ain't gonna happen) Can anyone tell me what specifications I should look f...
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3 tons wrote:BFL13 wrote:
http://www.xantrex.com/documents/Accessories/LinkLite-Battery-Monitor/LinkLITE_Operation(975-0428-01-01_rev-B).pdf
Don't see a program for charging efficiency.
Do see the one for Peukert--change that to 1.05 (I saw somewhere)
Need to kill auto-sync but can't see where.
Don't like that idea the battery is full just because the charger dropped to float voltage. That is just nutty IMO. Maybe I don't understand that part. ( I don't like the way Trimetric does it either)
It said to make sure the wires on the shunt are twisted or else your amps reading will be off. (The Trimetric wire comes with them twisted, don't know about LinkLite's.)
LinkLite wires are twisted (by ME - lol). With Li, the only feasible way I can see to determine ‘batt full’ is when battery current (zero) and voltage (maximum) have been holding steady for awhile, though (based on historical energy consumption) I don’t run the Li down to the lower range of DOD, the displayed SOC is an adequate approximate...I’ve yet to try the Coulomb counting method...Having said that (nuances aside), with solar I believe there’s little need to try and keep the batt full except for an occasional balancing of cells - the nice thing about Li is the uber expansive operating range where as a practical matter voltage drop becomes mostly irrelevant...JMO
X2, sometimes close is good enough. ;)
