Upgrade your battery game: AGM vs lead acid
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- Опубликовано: 28 янв 2024
- It was time to upgrade our batteries from our tired old lead acid Trojans to some AGMs!! I show you how I did it.
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Cool setup and nice video. You may want to consider adding a third set of runner wires connecting each of your bus bars together (the ones making your series connections.) This combination of series parallel operation where you effectively parallel at the 12V level can give you some advantage if there is variation in the capacities of your batteries, this will help balance out the stronger / weaker batteries within your system. Additionally if you ever do have an unintentional deep discharge it will also improve the probability that you don't have a grossly unmatched pair (24V pair) because you are essentially paralleling all of your 12V batteries and statistically balancing out the capacity variation of your "two" 12V blocks (made up of six batteries each) that are in series to make 24V. It will improve the lifetime of your system by keeping things more effectively balanced. You can even use a lesser AWG wire for the purpose of tying the bus bars together. As for your query about where to connect the inverter and charge controllers, ideal connection strategy would be negative on one eng and positive on the opposite end of the bank. However, based on your described usage / loads, I don't think that will make much if any difference long term for your system.
YAAY for the big batteries so get a meter with an amp clamp and you can see the differences yourself. Don't be scared of 'worthless' electrolytic grease as some folks call it. it'll kill the corrosion. You know what current and amps a welder uses and what your equipment needs. Believe your figures! I think you did a FINE job! You'll know as time goes on how it's doing. Did I see a Mack tandem over there to go with the dozer and loader? Another smart move. 1K gallon tank is another. EXPAND if you can and be thinking about it if you can't.......yet. Talk to the dozer and reassure it that it's not going to be left out in the cold. God Bless you and Olivia and varmints from us old geezerish hillbillies!
HAHA Lewie... My eye spies........ I'm hoping to purchase that Mack from a friend this spring.... stay tuned!
Ihe 1st truck I drove on the road after Army 5-tons was an old steel butterfly hooded ex-coal hauler DM cab Mack out of W Va. Here in the hills most trucks were Macks back then and a lot now. I've looked at bulldog butts since 73 when I got my chauffeurs license. Can't hardly hide a Dog from someone that almost lived in one. Hope it works out. I like an RD or a Superliner best but a nice 'B' model with a 5x4 will do nicely too!@@HiddenValleyHomestead
Slick deal on the AGM's. Keep doing this deal and triple your stack. Then you can then rotate your series batteries and just pull the parallel dead ones one or two at a time and still have energy in reserve at the correct voltage.
Thx! Yeah I couldn't pass up this deal. I actually have 4 more I plan on adding. What do you say about where to tap the whole bank? One end or in the middle?
@@HiddenValleyHomestead My pro installer used big wire cut to same lengths. He did not cut corners on this. I watched him stop the job and drive 40 miles one way to get a piece of the correct gage wire instead of use what he had on hand. He could have finished a day earlier. Didn't. So, i think this may be important. On your battery bank. To my knowlege there is only one battery brand that is not worried about additional battery add ons at later dates. (Simpliphi) Most companies recommend all batteries of the same date mfg. I suggest you grab more of this batch and forego any mismatch probs. But what do I know?
@deplorable1-2 I agree and I did exactly that... Good point my friend.