T-Pain Is On A Boat: [Electric Boats] Re: Do new batteries need to be broken in?

Thursday, July 23, 2009

[Electric Boats] Re: Do new batteries need to be broken in?

Can the link 10 be used with a 48V system?

--- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, "dennis wolfe" <dwolfe@...> wrote:
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> A Link 10 will do this as it knows the banks ah capacity and Peukert exponent. I think just counting ah would be good enough if you derated the bank to its 25 amp discharge time, which most mfrs publish.
> Denny Wolfe
> www.wolfEboats.com
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: aweekdaysailor
> To: electricboats@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 8:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [Electric Boats] Do new batteries need to be broken in?
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> How can you know when you are at 40%? Under load, the batteries are always lower than "resting state" voltage - which is what everyone says to measure - so how do we figure out what 40% is? Should we estimate from amp-hours and capacity?
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> thx
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> -Keith
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> --- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, Kevin Pemberton
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> "...in my book, 40% charge, I like running to 50% charge on my investment. I then will start the genset if I must go further."
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