Battery choice: one string or two? [RE-wrenches]

[Kurt Albershardt]

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--On Wednesday, October 08, 2003 5:07 PM -0600 Allan Sindelar <allan at positiveenergysolar.com> wrote:
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> Which choice would you recommend, and why?

At those sizes, the larger cells most likely have thicker plates and/or more water capacity, both of which are highly desirable.

Once you get into the ~800 AH and larger industrial batteries, it's usually just number of plates and size that go up with capacity.  Combine this with trying to keep cell weights manageable and sometimes two strings start to make sense.  I like the serviceability that provides but am usually unwilling to sacrifice plate thickness to get it on smaller banks.

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