[RE-wrenches] cycling flooded batteries is not necessary

[Darryl Thayer]

But they say that periodic  equalazation is, the is this same as one good hard cycle.  So it could be said that One cycle a month is all a lead antinmony battery needs.  and of course water replacement, and sp gr testing to be sure the equalization was successful and when the battery gets old and the self discharge gets higher you may have to cycle more like once a week.  
 
DT.  
 

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 From: "toddcory at finestplanet.com" <toddcory at finestplanet.com>
To: RE-wrenches <re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org> 
Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2012 3:37 PM
Subject: [RE-wrenches] cycling flooded batteries is not necessary
  

to reiterate wrenches: 
  
two battery manufacturers (surrette & trojan) have both stated there is NO NEED to cycle floating, flooded lead-antimony batteries. i have heard this urban legend for some time and it is nice to finally have it put to rest as an incorrect myth. 
  
todd 
  
  
  
  
On Saturday, February 18, 2012 7:04am, "Doug Wells" <dwells at thesolarspecialists.com> said:

 
> Maverick,
> 
> "But you would think after 20 years, inverter manufacturers would make some
> software similar to generator cycling to handle this cycling issue. "
> 
> I believe that the XW Inverters have this ability in sell mode.  There is
> traditional sell voltage.  And then there is a setting that puts the batteries
> through a traditional bulk cycle while still "selling" back any excess energy.
> The next question would be, is this better for battery longevity.  Seems like a
> hybrid of the two would be ideal.
> 
> Doug Wells
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