Its a conventional, unsealed, 100ah lead acid, deep cycle thing.
At least I think its 100ah. Thats the kind of thing youd think someone would emboss onto the side rather than adding it as a stamp. That and the voltage.
At least they went to the trouble of embossing the + and - marks.
So with this kind of battery, it seems they dont mind being run down as much as, say... a car battery might. Car batteries hate it when they are run down, and it shortens their lives in a big way.
A deep cycle battery (also called a flooded battery apparently) is a bit more forgiving, but they still see damage with every bit of use. The lower you allow the voltage to get before recharging, the less charge cycles you get from them before they need replacing.
As I understand it, 11.8v is considered "empty", but thats at rest 6 hours after you stop using it.
I need to know what "empty" is when Im cruising along drawing 20 amps or 35 amps (that being the amount of juice the motor pulls from the battery at speeds 4 and 5 of 5.
So my education for today turned into more questions than answers. It looks like its business as usual.
120 Things in 20 years thinks the Internet might not know something I need to know.
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
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