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Title: Battery Capacity
Post by: Lee Casebeer_01 on January 19, 2004, 11:29:16 am

Yahoo Message Number: 8102 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/8102)

9 + 3.5 + 4 amps x 9 hours = 148.5 Amp Hours verses 2 each 220 amp-hr. (440 amp-hr total) batteries means I'm not getting full "Power" out of my tired 2 years old, suppose to be, deep cycle 8-d's batteries. It's time for new True Deep Cycles before much more dry camping... Interesting Note: At last year's CLass Reunion, the inverter tech came to our rig and did his magic number punching on our Link 1000v controller and it told him that our battries had only be totally discharged twice..... Not enough to make them bad so soon...........
Lee in Portland '01 Intrigue #11219

Title: Re: Battery Capacity
Post by: Harvey_grooms on January 20, 2004, 10:29:02 am

Yahoo Message Number: 8112 (http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Country-Coach-Owners/conversations/messages/8112)

Quote from: lcasebeer@c\.\.\.

9 + 3.5 + 4 amps x 9 hours = 148.5 Amp Hours verses 2 each 220 amp-hr. (440 > amp-hr total) batteries means I'm not getting full "Power" out of my tired 2 > years old, suppose to be, deep cycle 8-d's batteries. It's time for new True > Deep Cycles before much more dry camping... Interesting Note: At last year's > CLass Reunion, the inverter tech came to our rig and did his magic number > punching on our Link 1000v controller and it told him that our battries had only be > totally discharged twice..... Not enough to make them bad so soon...........
Lee in Portland '01 Intrigue #11219

Lee, have you tried to equalize the batteries to desulfate them? This should be done at least once a year or after 30 deep discharges. I think you would be surprised how much life is left in them.

Harvey

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