โJul-05-2013 08:32 AM
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ajriding wrote:
I had got bad advice that the solar panel was not big enough to drain a fully charged battery over a few days. Solar panels will do this. Forget science that someone tells you. The reality is in the facts. A man with experience is more than a man with an idea.
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โJul-05-2013 07:45 PM
ajriding wrote:I would put some effort into making the location where the batteries are mounted into a more favorable aspect. I would think that after mounting the new batteries in that location, there will be no way of servicing them. This maybe explains the death of your previous set of batteries. It may also explain a sudden discharge since you have no way to see where the terminations and associated wiring are situated after mounting them. I hope I'm understanding this right. I've never seen a battery mounting location where the batteries are lifted from underneath to mount. Around here, we call that going to Duluth by way of Mankato, it is an unneeded trek.
thanks, I guess my main question was about the diode.
again, I got new batteries after the others ones got discharged and died. it's always humorous to read responses of those who did not understand the post.
disconnecting the panel was useless until I got the new battery bc dead battery would go dead again on it's own. oops, I had to park the vehicle at the storage place so could not run simple obvious test without endangering new batteries. My gosh, what a moron I must be. Oh, well, maybe next time I can dedicated all the hours in my day tending to the RV so I can do these easy test. well, thanks guys for the info, I can narrow my search when I get to visit the RV in it's parking place. I use a floor jack to load the batteries in, right now they are in my garage. To load them they go under the siding, up to clear the lip on the battery box that is attached to the frame under the floor, then down in a snug fitting cradle all while I lay sideways in an awkward position. I can't really see the terminals after this so connecting them is lots of fun. It's not something I want to do every 5-6 years, much less several times a day. I can't take the floor jack to the storage place though, so doing it by hand is a nightmare. To leave them in the RV means they will lose charge naturally until I get the system working again, to keep them here means it is impossible to track down the source of the drain. There is no outlet to plug in a charger at the storage place, and my covenant at home prevents me from storing an RV here. I wish I could do these simple test where u do this, then check back a few hours later, but checking back is sometimes a few days, in which time I would lose another set of batteries. So, there are the real details I guess...
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jhilley wrote:It was too much of a discipline for me. I flunked.
The design side of EE is a discipline, the application side an art.
โJul-05-2013 12:29 PM
2oldman wrote:MEXICOWANDERER wrote:Perhaps I do not know the precise definition of the word discipline, but I can't imagine what else EE could be thought of as. An art?
"Electrical engineering is a DISCIPLINE!" he shouted "Anyone of you who thinks it isn't can gather your books and get the hell out of my classroom!"