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Bobbo
Mar 21, 2015Explorer II
Salvo wrote:
Look at the numbers.
Battery boiling voltage is 14.4V at 25C.
Voltage reduces by 30mV/C.
You were at 100F, or 38C.
Boiling voltage is reduced by (38 - 25C) * 0.03/C = 0.39V.
At 100F, battery boiling voltage is 14.01V.
The Parallax converter is operating at 13.7V, way below the boiling voltage.
There are a few possibilities. The converter was defective or your story isn't straight.
Anyways, at 14.4V the battery degasses very little. It would take a long time for a battery that's initially full to drop electrolyte well below the plates.
Fancy numbers and equations don't conceal the fact that this post is 100% wrong.
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