[BC] Lead acid batteries.

[Bob Groome]

Why Harold, did not you were into an electric car! Mine is a VW (Volts-waggon) about 8 or 9 years old view at:

http://gallery.me.com/bobgroome#100023

I get about 3 to 5 years on a set of lead acid. Brand and quality make a difference (amount of lead and surface area). Battery technology is a bit better now. My charger is a Ruscco (yes same company as hockey puck turntables) that hits hard at first then tapers off current. Use a 12 volt battery to run the accessories. It is charge from the 'big' battery pack via a 105.6 to 13.2 converter. The life of the 12 battery is not nearly as good. Could be because it is not fully charged all the time. The converter is more like a trickle charger. I did not have the money to go with a nice monitor system like you.

Regards,

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Bob Groome
www.bobgroome.com
Work E-mail: bgroome at eriinc.com
 

--- On Tue, 11/2/10, Harold Hallikainen <harold at hallikainen.com> wrote:

>From: Harold Hallikainen <harold at hallikainen.com>

>> My car runs on ten 180-Amp-hour 12-Volt deep cycle batteries connected
>> in series.  Keeping the charge balanced is difficult to say the least.
>> I keep close records on each battery and I can attest to the fact that
>> the ones that are discharged the deepest fail first.

>Several years ago, I built a battery monitor for use in electric cars. The
>monitors were mounted on the negative terminal of each of the series
>connected 12V batteries. A

>>>>>>