Simple Emergency Power Supply - How Do I Build? - Page 9

 

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 14:51:17 +1000, "Kiwi John"


Depends how deap you cycle the battery. if you go to 80%dod each cycle
reduces the life of the batery by roughly 50%
At a 20%dod, you are looking at less than 5% for sure - more likely
less than 1%. That said - definitely get deep cycle batteries, because
a 20%dod is not a lot of usable power.

And as for the hydrometer - definitely good to have with flooded acid
batteries - but absolutely useless with AGM (or gell cell).

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What abt buying and using one of those portable car
battery jumpers?

They usually have 12 cigarette lighter sockets.

 

lighter sockets are for very low wattage devices, and are unreliable.
use anderson powerpoles instead.

http://www.powerwerx.com


Steve Spence
Dir., Green Trust,   http://www.green-trust.org
Contributing Editor, http://www.off-grid.net
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me@privacy.net wrote:

 

I wanted to thank everyone for the help. I'll eventually get
everything together and build this. When I get it done and working,
I'll put together a web page w/ some pics and post the link.

{:o)

-- Christian


On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 10:23:30 -0600, Christian M. Mericle


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