<font face="arial" size="4">I agree with that for floating flooded, wet cell lead antimony batteries... but flooded lead calcium cells are a more appropriate choice for floating banks on grid ties with backup. No cycling is necessary. <br><br>Todd<br><br>On Thursday, June 10, 2010 12:32pm, "Bell, Steve" <sbell@sunwize.com> said:<b><font color="navy" face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; color: navy; font-weight: bold;">I also agree with Ray’s comments that
batteries need to be cycled
somewhat (15% to 20%) to harvest their full life cycle. We all learned
that when
we continuously floated battery banks with the old SW inverters. Banks
that are
always floated only seem to deliver about 70% of the expected life.
Moderate
cycling is good for a battery.</span></font></b><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></font><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="country-region"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PostalCode"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"><div class="Section1">
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