Saturday, January 17, 2015

Re: [Electric Boats] Charging batteries in series?

 

Yes Kevin, except he includes "et al" and his response was to a question about charging AGM. 


He may know software but clearly doesn't know batteries. Why do I care, because someone just starting out reads what he posted, walks into a battery store and sounds like an idiot. 


eric SV Meander






---In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, <pembertonkevin@...> wrote :

The Key word is LiFePO.

On Friday, January 16, 2015 02:19:18 PM you wrote:
> Are you trying to tell us that my AGM batteries "contain electronics that
> are designed to instruct their own individual (per pack) charger on what to
> deliver for optimum charging."

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> ---In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, <dominic.amann@...> wrote :
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> Having just worked on the software drivers for a "SBS" (smart battery
> system) I can tell you that modern (LiFePO et al) battery packs contain
> electronics that are designed to instruct their own individual (per pack)
> charger on what to deliver for optimum charging.

> They use SMBus for communicating (a variety of I2C) that is used in
> automobiles etc.

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> This is why modern battery packs ought to charged individually especially
> for the "topping up" as you call it.

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