When the battery set gets low [RE-wrenches]
Hugh
hugh at scoraigwind.co.uk
Sun Jul 31 05:53:56 PDT 2005
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>Just an observation. When the battery set gets low,
>it takes a lot of energy to recharge. It acts as if
>the battery efficency is very poor. When the customer
>is low on battery power and they run the genny to
>recharge and equalize it takes a very long time and
>subsequently a lot of fuel.
>Has anyone else noticed?
Yes, I have definitely noticed that. When my huge great battery gets
low it is very ungrateful for any charge that comes its way and it is
very unrewarding to jam a load of amps into it for short periods.
For a few years I had the habit of running my engine driven welder to
charge at about 2kW, while using only a couple of hundred watts in
the house. A gallon of fuel later the batteries would be no happier.
Nowadays I run a tiny little generator and all the power gets used
directly (saving my batteries from discharging much) and a gallon of
fuel would last me about 15 hours. Makes more sense to me. I wait
for cheap and abundant wind energy to persuade my batteries back to
life later.
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Hugh
Scoraig Wind Electric
http://www.scoraigwind.co.uk/
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