pianotuna wrote:
StirCrazy wrote:
pianotuna wrote:
Stir crazy,
I have no way of knowing what the battery chemistry is. It is not specified in the owners manual.
I'm only providing information for others. LiFePo4 are useless for me.
I believe they are wonderful batteries for temperatures above freezing.
so your providing information for other on somthing you have not used or don't know if you used, and yet the information you like to provide is from older chemestry lightium batteries which don't share the same properties as newer versions.... just think about that for a second...
Old? Nope just got it 2 weeks ago. Recommended 85% max charge for long life. I do read manuals and follow the recommendations.
What I don't know is the exact type of li battery.
if you just got it they do put the chemistry type in the owners manual nd it is written on the battery. so realy theres no excuse for you not to know.
nobody is disputing that if you use less of the capacity you get more life. this happens with every battery chemistry out there, flooded , agm, Si02, and Li. but they do have there rated life and at 3000 to 4000 cycles at 100% discharge are you worried about getting more cycles. when I sized my camper I used to have 110 usable AH in it with two 6v batteries, now I have 300AH so to use the full capacity would be a strech as the solare would charge long before I ever got that low. (I could go 3 days with out sun with the old batteries) so will I use all the battery, no i set my cut off to 11.9V so I am not using the bottom 8ish % and I'll probably only charge to 100% when I am actualy camping. I can change that setting in about 30 seconds with my phone. so maybe on the day I go home I'll set the charge limit to about 70% for storage and a day or two before I go camping Ill set it for 100% or heck I could use 90% that will still give me about 250 usable AH, thats the beautiful thing about sizing a battery properly, if gives you options and reserve capacity. so by using say 82% of my battery I could maybe get 7000 cycles instead of the 3500.. is that my concern? naw Ill be dead by the time I would ever use 7000 cycles, maybe I can leave this pack to my kids in the will...:B
