JackConnick
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- 1991 Grand Banks 36 Classic
Another thread mentioned that discharging AGM batteries lower than 50% doesn't impact their life much, as long as they are charged back up quickly after.
I have 4x L14 6v Lifelines for 600ah in my house bank. If I stay on the hook for a 2-3 days we have to run our 5.5kw genset twice a day - gets old. We added 3x180 watts of solar which in the summer helps out during the day quite a bit. But another 100ah of usage would help us quite a bit. As these are fairly new, I'm not ready to switch to LiPO4 and no room to add more capacity.
This article author shows that going down to 70-80% doesn't hurt the batteries that much if at all.
I'm curious what others have experienced??
I have 4x L14 6v Lifelines for 600ah in my house bank. If I stay on the hook for a 2-3 days we have to run our 5.5kw genset twice a day - gets old. We added 3x180 watts of solar which in the summer helps out during the day quite a bit. But another 100ah of usage would help us quite a bit. As these are fairly new, I'm not ready to switch to LiPO4 and no room to add more capacity.
This article author shows that going down to 70-80% doesn't hurt the batteries that much if at all.
I'm curious what others have experienced??