12-30-2024, 11:28 PM
Strong !
What Forest is referencing is that he built the battery pack I am now using 12 years ago. I have been using it for 9. Last year, I ran a redneck capacity test. I charged it to full, unplugged the coach, reset the amp hrs out on the meter, and left the fridge, a couple of fans, and all the parasitic loads in place. I let it run until the low battery cutoff turned off the inverter. It still had over 1000 amp hrs in them. Yes I know that higher draw loads might have cut that number a bit.
The point is that when Forest built them, and he was on the bleeding edge of LiPoFe at the time, it was purported the Lithiums would last a very long time if properly charged and discharged.
In addition to them being in service for 12 yrs, keep in mind, that we live in the coach 6 months every year. So it isn't just sitting in the back yard plugged in.
Good job Forest !
What Forest is referencing is that he built the battery pack I am now using 12 years ago. I have been using it for 9. Last year, I ran a redneck capacity test. I charged it to full, unplugged the coach, reset the amp hrs out on the meter, and left the fridge, a couple of fans, and all the parasitic loads in place. I let it run until the low battery cutoff turned off the inverter. It still had over 1000 amp hrs in them. Yes I know that higher draw loads might have cut that number a bit.
The point is that when Forest built them, and he was on the bleeding edge of LiPoFe at the time, it was purported the Lithiums would last a very long time if properly charged and discharged.
In addition to them being in service for 12 yrs, keep in mind, that we live in the coach 6 months every year. So it isn't just sitting in the back yard plugged in.
Good job Forest !
Richard and Rhonda Entrekin
95 Newell, 390 Ex caretaker
99 Newell, 512 Ex caretaker
07 Prevost Marathon, 1025
Maverick Hybrid Toad
Inverness, FL (when we're home
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