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Old 03-19-2015, 06:58 AM   #19
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It would be an interesting experiment to parallel 300Ah of charged LiFePO4 with a large discharged lead-acid bank. I wouldn't want to do it, but it would be interesting!







In the meantime, Maine Sail mentioned Firefly carbon-foam AGM technology in the thread on the other forum, so I did some looking at that. See http://www.bruceschwab.com/advanced-...asis-group-31/


Sort of incredible to see their design life at 3600 cycles to 50% DoD or 1000 cycles to 80% DoD. That would be 3.5x longer life span (to 50% DoD) than Lifeline's 6V GPL-4CT golf cart batteries, and 5.5x longer that Odyssey's PC2150 G31s. Hmmm....


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