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briand6868 Full Member Offline Here, wishing I was there Posts: 207 Location: Coll de L'alba Joined: Mar 10^th, 2009 Gender:	Looking for Tips for Battery Charging. Mar 7^th, 2012 at 11:06pm	Print Post
	Evening All, We have 2 x 12v "truck" batteries connected together then connected to an inverter which we charge off a genny/battery charger daily ,after a few hours of charge I let them rest for an hour or so then test the charge with a voltmeter thingy(2 pos/neg spikes) - if it tells me 12.7 or so I'm happy. Is this the wrong way to do things - should I leave them on the genny for longer-let them rest for longer - what should a full charge read. Ta, Briand.


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avalidopinion Ex Member	Re: Looking for Tips for Battery Charging. Reply #1 - Mar 8^th, 2012 at 3:38am	Print Post
	Hi Briand � Its OK I am not stalking your posts. I have a bad back and spend most of the early hours reading the morning papers/Forums on my puter if the old bones are playing up. I found this site which is a little old but it must have taken the guy 2 years to type. I only read about 4 lines and my eyes glazed over but it may help re "Resting" batteries and other useful errrrr things I think.� http://www.phrannie.org/battery.html More light reading re inverters below.� http://www.phrannie.org/invert.html


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Nobrot Ex Member	Re: Looking for Tips for Battery Charging. Reply #2 - Mar 8^th, 2012 at 8:48am	Print Post
	Have you tried stamp collecting


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El_Alto Full Member Offline Dutch and Curious Posts: 211 Location: Holland / Terra Alta Joined: Jul 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Looking for Tips for Battery Charging. Reply #3 - Mar 8^th, 2012 at 11:54am	Print Post
	And if your interest is waked up, here is the paper that tells you everything there is to know: http://www.victronenergy.com/upload/documents/ElectricityonBoard_rev8_july2004.p... Good luck, Mark


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briand6868 Full Member Offline Here, wishing I was there Posts: 207 Location: Coll de L'alba Joined: Mar 10^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: Looking for Tips for Battery Charging. Reply #4 - Mar 8^th, 2012 at 12:38pm	Print Post
	avalidopinion, I was starting to worry if you had a late night thing for Irishmen !!! Noticed the times on lots of your posts - will read this and try to pick the bones out of it, all info gratefully recieved - hope the back gets better - I'll get my Mum & Dad (both reiki masters) to send you a bit of mumbo jumbo. Brian.


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Harvo Ex Member	Re: Looking for Tips for Battery Charging. Reply #5 - Mar 8^th, 2012 at 4:59pm	Print Post
	If you are genuinely using 'truck' batteries then they will quickly die as they dont do many 'cycles' ....the leisure batteries that caravan/boat people use are the type to get as they can stand an awful lot more discharges. A cheap substitute are electric truck batteries...the 'ride on' pallet truck items. Also, Maplin do an excellent little solar set up for �200 that will drive this type of set up.....I used to use 3 x 120amp/hr batteries on one of these and during the day I ended up with close to 17v that dropped back to 14v as they settled back. http://www.maplin.co.uk/60w-solar-power-kit-223250 The little control box is very good and has a USB and a 'car style 12v plug' thats dead handy for phone chargers


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briand6868 Full Member Offline Here, wishing I was there Posts: 207 Location: Coll de L'alba Joined: Mar 10^th, 2009 Gender:	Re: Looking for Tips for Battery Charging. Reply #6 - Apr 18^th, 2012 at 10:52pm	Print Post
	Evening Folks, Just had a very good chat with Nigel of prismsolar and have had an education on all things battery/inverter/charger/genny absolutely without any obligation Nigel advised on where I was going wrong and what to do to put it right.A gentleman whom I hope I will be sending some biz.


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