Down-sizing battery systems [RE-wrenches]

[Allan Sindelar]

Whoops.
Correcting an error: it's a C/50 charging rate, given two 12V modules to two
6V batteries.
Allan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Allan Sindelar" <allan at positiveenergysolar.com>

It always seemed to me that early off-grid systems
> had a tremendously high ratio of storage to input: I have had more than
one
> old-timer ask if we still sized to one-battery-per-module. Keep in mind
that
> one module was typically 35W or 2.2A, and a battery was a golf cart;
that's
> a C/100 charging rate.


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