Tuesday, October 23, 2012

[Electric Boats] Re: Charge efficiency

 

Lead acid batteries loose capacity with age/usage. Do lithium do the same?

John

--- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, "Tom" <boat_works@...> wrote:
>
> I use a LinkPro to keep tabs on my 8.6KWh lithium battery bank.
> One of the features of the LinkPro is a history function which displays the total AH used to charge the cells and also the total AH consumed from them.
>
> In about 2 1/2 years I have put 6209 Ah into the cells, and consumed 6116. That works out to a charge efficiency of 98.5%. I was amazed.
>
> Does it really matter? Not to me, since I charge from the grid, and pay little for electricity here on Puget Sound.
>
> But I thought it was interesting.
>
> -Tom
>

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